Word: manned
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...falling. Their climate is not subject to extremes as is ours, but it is proverbially noted for its wet days, and, as a matter of fact, the disagreeable weather of last week may be taken as a fair example of English weather. The success of the Oxford or Cambridge man is not owing so much to his constitution and climate, as to his pertinacity in carrying out whatever he undertakes. Men in England will train honestly for a month at least before the day of the sports for which they enter. They will give up smoking, drinking, and late hours...
...that has come to Harvard for several years. Certainly it is not so painfully "cocky" as are most Freshman classes. Indeed, some of the class seem to feel that upper classmen consider them beneath their notice. For the consolation of such modest men we would say that unless a man gives himself away by knocking at the door of U. 5, or by calling the instructor "professor," he is not looked upon as an inferior being by any except senseless Sophomores. We are all liable to be taken in, at least once in our lives, and the recipients of those...
...seems to be the popular impression that there is something in any college education, and particularly in a Harvard education, which prevents a graduate from becoming a successful editor. He may become a brilliant lawyer, a skilful physician, or a successful business man; but he can never become a great journalist...
Undoubtedly the prime requisites of a good editor are coolness, quickness, and impartiality; yet are not these qualities also required to make a man a good lawyer, physician, or business man? But behind the coolness and the quickness and the impartiality there must be some special knowledge, there must be a something on which these good qualities work. The aim of this article is to show that the training which one, by a selection of courses with journalism in view, may obtain at this College can be made to apply directly on one's future work...
...loving like a man, who sets his eyes...