Word: likes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...circumstances, but how to adapt himself to any circumstances that may arise. With any such principle, our present system is incompatible. History and geography are presented to the pupil, without ever allowing him a glimpse of their significance for his own life. He is loaded with arithmetic and the like until no room is left in his mind for noble thoughts, broad ideas, or high aspirations...
...custom. It was for just these reasons that the dinners of the senior class gradually dropped out from the list of college events. The junior dinner is now the only remaining occasion on which the class in all the four years of college life meets together in anything like social relations. It is the one unifying force; the one opportunity before class day for men to put aside all the barriers which divide the class into endless cliques and to meet on a common level. While we may not regret on the whole that class feeling...
...office has just been created in the Lawrence Scientific School which will be filled by Mr. Montague Chamberlain. He will be Secretary of the School and his duties will be much like those of his former office. Members of the School will report to him instead of the Recorder at U. 5, and he will have general supervision of affairs. This appointment will relieve Prof. Shaler of some of his work...
...then it must of coursed diminish the necessity of energy on their part. The less calls for action a man responds to, the less strength he acquires. There is danger in all this luxury, danger that the weaker men will go down before it, but, if we use it like men, then it must help us to become better...
...have begun their work of canvassing the college. We hope that every man may feel the responsibility of helping the collectors in their work by quick and liberal subscriptions. The duties of collectors are arduous and unpleasant at the least. The treatment which these men receive is often more like that which would be accorded a book agent; that they are fellow students, fulfilling legitimate obligations, is only too often overlooked. In this particular case, the object for which contributions are solicited is one which we ought to consider a pleasure to help along. We can be assured...