Word: look
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wail go up over the degeneration of Harvard sports. Last year, when we returned from the summer vacation, humiliated by defeat, and almost in despair at our ill success, we vowed unutterable vows in our determination for a reform. We all know the result. We can even now only look forward with fear and trembling for the further results. But it is useless to sit still and bemoan the past, if we have in our hands the means of regeneration. It is very evident that the material of our athletic teams must be improved. The best material of the college...
...Young men, you can make of yourselves what you will; but a thing once done, is done forever. Live, then, that you may have nothing to look back upon, when you are as old as I am, with regret. Your memories will not fail you; and if you err now, you will have never to be forgotten stains on your lives. You are all authors; each of you at the end of each day has written a page; but what you write can never be erased. Write you books clean, then; live that your memories...
...make ten hours steady work per day. Can it be that Brown has adopted President Eliot's "University" plan, and is turning out one-sided specialists instead of men with a liberal education? The newspaper which says that specialization is "crumbling the walls of scholastic learning" at Harvard, should look into this affair at Brown...
...very important, until I have discovered it repeated on most of the subsequent pages. At times it is mostly "Snodkins, '85," a phrase terse, but so full of meaning! Or, again it is "Snodkins, '85," with, conspicuously near, a reference to "p. 199," or "p. 299." I look up the first reference, and find that it relates to the Chinese in America, from which circumstance I have to draw too obvious conclusions about my friend's nationality. The portraits of the great lecturer are almost without number, representing him in every conceivable position. They are all dated, I suppose...
...look as we did yesterday...