Word: likes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fear that some of the wisdom of the "sarpint" lay behind this Eton boy's request. Are there no trots at Eton for a man to consult when he is "stuck" in Greek? We should like to see that guileless youth's collection of autographs before we believe his little tale...
This plan has the advantages that the colleges could safely alter their rules in such a way as to give the alumni discretionary power to enforce the rules and order on the field, in cases where they could not give a like power to such professional umpires as are usually employed. We think by its adoption that not only could the sole objectionable feature in college contact with professionals be removed, but also more cordial relations would be promoted among the colleges. For the colleges would be relying upon each other's honor...
...qualifications. Men who combine both qualifications, namely, natural ability and thorough knowledge, most perfectly, are the most successful, and get the highest pay. Then there are those who fail, because they undertake to do what even their bare knowledge should forbid. Some men, who advertise themselves as tuors, are like that class which seems to think it can get money without labor or ability. They don't recognize that if they want good pay for tutoring they must be able to give someting of value in exchange. Why, there are cases of men who have set themselves up as tutors...
...must stop here. I had hoped to write more, but looking over that bill, which I paid, has been too much for me. I ought to have reserved it for the last. The reader must draw his own conclusions. If his janitor is like mine, then he will take pleasure in knowing that he is not the sole victim, that with greater likelihood the victims are legion, as many as the year has days, or as Harvard has students...
President Bartlett of Dartmouth said recently, at the alumni gathering in Boston, "We believe in government by the Faculty." He evidently does not favor any enlightenment and useful system like the co-operative system which the Amherst students enjoy, and which has proved so beneficial to the college...