Word: likeness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...well established custom among our undergraduates to saunter down to the boat-house, and lounge away the long spring afternoons with a book and a pipe, watching the arrival and departure of the crews, and good naturedly criticising their merits and defects. It is a custom that we should like to see revived, not only for the good effect which it would have upon the work of our boating men, but also because it would revive a very pleasant feature of by-gone student life at Harvard...
...does it with a different aim, to give a general scholastic training. But it seems as if Harvard could, without much difficulty, make out a system of instruction by selecting and arranging courses from the college and the Law School which should cover the work done in a school like that at Columbia...
...pronunciation of Latin, as now taught at Harvard, would sound like burlesque to those who learned Latin 20 or 30 years ago. Veni, vidi, vici, is pronounced wanee, wedee, weeke. This revolution is due to Prof. George M. Lane, who thinks he finds his authority for it in a careful study of Quintilian. - Cornell...
...possible, and to see that there are no unnecessary delays between the events. One more thing also they can do. They can insist that the wrestlers be given a hold before the patience of the audience is utterly exhausted. If the wrestling could be made short, sharp and decisive like the sparring, it would become one of the features of the meetings instead of being one of the things which are inevitable and that one accepts as a dispensation...
...should like to call attention to a communication on another page, in which the writer points to the need of establishing a school of Political Science at Washington. The matter is interesting not only to those who for themselves wish to get a practical knowledge of political and economic topics but for those who are anxious to see the civil service of our country bettered. It is likely that no civil service laws will be wholly effectual in getting good work out of our public officers, until these men are fully fitted for their duties by a course of training...