Word: mention
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...interest in every student's work by setting apart certain hours when he can be consulted. It is this contact with professors which so stimulates students in their work. Is not this the reason why such men as Professors Cooke, Palmer, Shaler, and White, and others whom we could mention, are so eminently successful as instructors...
...difference of opinion. The object of the Advocate is to have whatever criticisms it makes, forcible though just. When it thinks that this can be done without the use of anyone's name, it will make the criticism wholly impersonal; but when on deliberation it seems necessary to mention any gentleman's name, either for praise or censure, it will not hesitate to do so boldly and fearlessly...
...article on the field sports of the present day, the Boston Herald takes occasion to mention lacrosse in the following terms: "In New England, lacrosse has just about held its own, but in the West clubs are rapidly springing up, and there are more clubs there now than in Canada. The interest in this city was greatly stimulated last season by the formation of a New England league, and this season will find four clubs, Cambridge, Somerville, Harvard University and Boston, playing a good strong game. Any one of these ought to be able to hold any club...
That harm as well as good may come from too frequent mention in the newspapers, no one will deny. Vassar College, the pioneer college for women, is an instance where much real harm has come from a cheap newspaper notoriety due to this very fact that it was the first in the field to afford collegiate instruction for the weaker sex. How the college is suffering from the cause may be learned from the following, which an exchange prints...
...representative janitor; but very greatly unexpected circumstances came in my way. I found such an interview impossible. Day after day and week after week, morning, noon, and afternoon, I have called at the janitor's room, only to find him out. But for certain circumstances, which I shall mention later, I would have doubted that there was any janitor about at all. However, perhaps it is well that I could not hold the interview. Who knows that I would now be able to write, had I dared to interview a janitor ? The matter of this article, then, must be from...