Word: mens
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...between a scholarship and "a silver cup won in a boat race," - the winner of this latter "prize" not being forced to remember that a majority of the class (including, perhaps, some of the best oarsmen) were restrained from competing. Scholarships open to all would undoubtedly attract to Harvard men who ought to be here, but who are so situated that they cannot confess the pinch of poverty which sends them to inferior colleges. They would encourage earnest work by offering to students, through their own exertions, the means of procuring special instruction during the long vacation, or upon graduating...
...must meet the obvious objection that wealthy young men might be induced to break away from the temptations to idleness which beset them, and succeed in winning money which they do not need. Not to mention the probable supposition that in such cases the emolument would in some way be restored to the college, it is confidently replied that, any stimulus to self-control and industry which may chance to reach the inheritors of wealth it is for the interest of the community to bestow. Moreover, to those who are troubled by difficulties of this description, it may be pointed...
...records of his life at this place are scanty. Devotion to study seems to have injured his health, for the college book sets him down as "greaviuslie trubbled by ye cattarrhhe in ye Wintrie Wether." We find, also, that he was on terms of intimacy with the leading men of the college, especially with a certain Decanus, - a man whom history passes over in silence, but who apparently was an instructor in ethics. This worthy man often invited young Philip to spend the afternoon with him, and doubtless derived much pleasure from the conversation of the ingenuous youth...
...having been left to the Executive Committee of the University Boat Club to arrange some new method of rowing for those boating men who will not be immediate applicants for seats in the 'Varsity, the committee has decided to hold three races on Saturday...
...soon as the boating men in each class shall have chosen their class captains, the executive committee will be glad to consult with them with regard to obtaining boats, and facilities for training and coaching their crews...