Word: means
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...doubtless seem to many an awful anomaly, but still even then the phrase must contain an idea, and that idea lies at a greater depth than the mere names themselves. Sub-freshmen don't properly belong in college, but sub-freshmen in the sophomore class! What does it mean? A freshmen proper is expected at the beginning of the year to appear a little verdant, as they say; indeed he is not to be blamed for it. But when the freshman has become a sophomore he is supposed to have set aside his freshman ways. But what...
...more numerous its corps of instructors, the broader its curriculum, and in brief the nearer it approximates to a university, the greater becomes the estrangement between instructors and students. It is here that the smaller colleges have the advantage of us, and it is an advantage of no mean importance. Many a parent has been induced to sent his boys to colleges which in every other respect are inferior to ours, because he feels the personal influence of teachers, is of far more importance than what of mere knowledge he could gain in larger universities. Can we compare the benefit...
...chapel, are now in the course of erection. During the summer of 1883, the Hon. Edward Ashton Rollins of Philadelphia proposed to build a chapel at the cost of $30,000, provided that twice that amount should be raised from some source for a library. In the mean while, Halsey J. Boardman, Esq., late of Providence, R. I., informed the trustees that it would be in accordance with the known wishes of that gentleman that his legacy of $50,000, when paid, should be used for the erection of a library building. The proposition was satisfactory to Mr. Rollins...
...perhaps also it will not be out of place to wish for more. Thus far the method has been especially favorable to the advocates of few plank-walks and strict economy, and very unfavorable to physicians; but the physicians will have their turn next spring. No plank-walks mean wet feet, wet feet mean illness, illness means the doctor, and the doctor means-well, sometimes one thing and sometimes another. In the spring the yard often contains a system of small rivers, and when the bell rings we see the men coming out of their different halls, swimming slowly across...
...next turned into the kitchen proper. Here we saw the immense brick ovens where all the meats are roasted. One was forcibly reminded of the old fashioned ovens of our grandfathers, which produced such an impression upon our childish fancies. A bakery of no mean proportions is a necessary adjunct. It requires no less than two barrels of flour every day to satisfy our desires for the "staff of life." The huge range, upon which all steaks are broiled, and all orders cooked; the vegetable kettles of enormous capacity, and many other immense contrivances did escape our attention...