Word: liking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...been noticeable; for while in the first year class last year there were only three Yale graduates, this year there are eighteen. This large increase may be traced in part to the changes going on in the Columbia Law School, by which the method of instruction is becoming more like the one used here. Speaking of the Law School President Eliot said not long ago, that the excellency of the method is not only recognized, but the success of the Law School has given an impetus which has been felt through all the departments of the University...
...Kitchin's France is out of print I should like to buy or borrow several copies...
...open to Harvard men, and all candidates for the Mott Haven team who can get in condition for them should enter. These meetings afford a pleasant variety of training and the experience gained from them is of the greatest value to our athletes. Nothing trains the judgment in athletics like actual competition, and lack of nice and exact judgment is fatal in a close race or any other form of field sports...
...Apologist" is the most ambitious piece of prose in the number. Taking for his text some thoughts of Bourget, Mr. Hapgood indulges at some length in an analytical discussion of certain phases of realism of the century, of a certain literary unrest which produces heroes like that one of M. Bourget's who "rots in science, dimly feels his rottoness, defends it in syllogisms, and turns its foul breath on the purest flower in sight." For all this, Mr. Hapgood has a moral and comes to the conclusion that "our discontent with the conditions of our life...
...work after the Christmas recess, that he has no time for anything else. The result is that, unless a man has a fair knowledge of indoor work when he comes here, he has no chance to learn anything. The natural effect is to-kill his interest. He does not like to make himself conspicuous and ridiculous on the floor in trying to get the knack of some simple little thing without help or direction. The unvaried dose of chest weights prescribed soon grows distasteful, and the new man finally either stays away from the gymnasium altogether or appears perhaps once...