Word: life
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...When life looked blue, and hard the burden came...
...make of life an endless holiday...
...orator of the Phi Beta Kappa Society last June was Professor Charles C. Everett. The subject was "The Gain of History"; or, as the author states more fully, "Do the changes of History imply corresponding Gains?" By History is meant the life of mankind since the Aryan dispersion. Are we better off than our forefathers of four thousand years ago? Before answering this question, Professor Everett seeks to remove certain prejudices. One of these is the natural belief that all is for the best, from which proceeds, especially in youth, an enthusiastic trust in progress; but, even retaining a faith...
...College authorities are powerless to do more than keep such an evil in check, as in past years, by the painful method of dismissing detected students, - usually not the most culpable, - thus perhaps blighting their prospects for life. The responsibility or the credit for breaking up such a custom must rest with the students themselves, especially with the members of the Sophomore and Freshman Classes...
...come back to College to realize more fully than hitherto that '74 has left us; and it is with no inglorious record at College that they have gone forth to a life of honor, we hope, both to themselves and our University. Personally, we all miss them; and they will be missed still more at the bat, at the oar, and in the editorial sanctum. It is true that since they entered College we have won no University race; but that this failure was owing more to our ill-fortune than to their want of skill and determination, will...