Word: manned
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...President to a member of '74 his application was ruled out, and this decision established as a future regulation. This ruling does injustice to such students, and it is hoped will be reversed in the case of future awards. Expenses are not so low here that it argues a man must be over and above wealthy if he travel...
...wonderful, not long ago a Professor remarked, how much a man of my age comes to know. That Agassiz estimated his own learning but small is clear; fishing with a friend, to an inquiry he said, while confessing his ignorance, that his lifetime hardly offered a beginning for the labors his science demanded...
...knows the means by which free speech is made influential in a democracy like ours, will, theoretically at least, take its utility for granted. The question at issue is the time at which the study and practice of the art should be commenced. According to our author, "a man must have a vast number of well-arranged facts and settled opinions before he can speak off-hand with ease." In other words, after years of cloister student-life, in which his learning is being augmented and his opinions digested, the man will one day blossom into a full-grown orator...
...confidently makes trial of its strength in the air. But, alas! the failure. Not till then does it learn its own weakness. The retirement of the study is well enough so far as it goes, but there is nothing like the rostrum for taking the conceit out of a man. The sooner and oftener he gets upon it and is made to learn from the bitterness of defeat the depth of his own ignorance, the more he will prize both study and rostrum as means...
...Saratoga. There is a bitter feeling in the minds of many against the men who had the regatta in charge last year at Springfield; as immediately after the race, Cornell's position in the race was telegraphed over the country as eleventh, when it was perfectly evident to every man on the grand stand that her position was fourth. It is thought by some that a Freshman crew will be sent on, together with the University crew; but it is not at all probable...