Word: liking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hold a class dinner this year, the Class of Ninety-nine has taken the initiative in a movement which it is hoped and believed will be the means of strengthening class spirit and enthusiasm, of which there is now far too little at Harvard. A Sophomore dinner should, like the Junior dinner now annually held, do much to make the members of the class better acquainted with each other as individuals, and with the strength and spirit and ability in various ways of the class as a whole. To be thoroughly successful the dinner should be informal...
...suggestion is often made that the student should plan his work in advance in a way to obviate this interference of courses. But it is manifestly impossible for Freshmen to decide on eighteen courses. He can plan in a general way what line of study he would like to pursue, but beyond that he cannot go. He is necessarily affected by each succeeding year and by each course he takes. The difficulty of choice of subjects is increased by the fact that many of the best courses are given only every second or third year. The result of this...
...have been told that this proves that men do not go into the club for their love of music, but that they may enjoy the excitement of the trip. I should like to ask how many men try for the crew or the football team because of their love of exercise? How many men come to college because they love to study? Is it not proper that men should be led to take exercise and to pursue a college course because of their love of athletic glory and their desire for worldly success? While human nature remains...
...rowed in one of the old pairs which has been rigged with English locks and slides with no incline. Yesterday for the first time the men rowed with the new oars from Donahue which have been made like the English ones with narrow blades and greater leverage inboard...
...university ideals and interests by blind acts of club partisanship. And the non-society men are no less to blame; with their two-thirds voting power they have been too long indifferent to the evils. As a matter of fact, few men see the evil at the time, and, like the writer, only regret what they have done or failed to do after a year or two of reflection. The writer, a society man himself, appeals first to the societies not to distribute a printed slate, and he appeals to the non-society men to attend the election every...