Word: impressive
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reputation. Our College Conference meetings, although informal and unpretentious, are, perhaps, after all, the most valuable of all lectures. The subjects discussed are to us students, living questions, and the opinions of men like President Eliot, Professor Norton and the Rev. J. G. Brooks, are likely to impress deeply young men whose minds are still open to conviction. Our dogmas are as yet unformed, and here is an opportunity to mould them well. Tonight, Mr. Geo. W. Cable speaks on a subject which concerns every man. It is needless to commend the lecturer to the college; all know...
Under. the title "The Ascetic of La Beauce," Mr. Dodge describes with characteristic touch the old cathedral of Chartres. It is evident that the writer has carefully studied the subject of his theme, but his style is too sympathetic fully to impress our minds with the sternness of Chartres...
Thus Prof. Barnard proves that his college could be more profitably emplyed by confining itself to the field of superior education. The tendency has been of late to impress upon the directors of Columbia as well as those of Harvard, the importance of providing for the wants of a superior class of students, of those who have finished elsewhere their college career, and who wish to pursue their studies in a higher place. Columbia is especially favored in regard to location, for such an undertaking, situated as it is, in the heart of a great city. Professor Barnard looks forward...
...college playgrounds on all occasions. It has been suggested that a body of students be organized into a police force which shall drive out objectionable characters from the yard and ball fields whenever they appear. This, it seems to us, is the only effective way with which to impress outsiders with the fact that the college grounds are for college men and not for outsiders. If some of the 'varsity crew nine were to take the initiative, we are certain that they will find many men ready to aid them in the undertaking. We are informed officially that such...
Among the Topics of the Day the "Sentimentalist," the frequenter of Cornhill second-hand book-stores figures in a short, well-written essay. "Prescience," though a graceful piece of vorse, can hardly be said to impress one with a true poetic feeling...