Word: minding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...those who signed the petition in honest conviction of right, and to all who hold to their honor as gentlemen, such an imputation is as unwarranted as it can be proved to be untrue. It is now in the power of the students to show what they had in mind when they asked that they should no longer be forced to attend prayers...
Such temptations are unquestionably to be found in the secret societies whose end is secrecy and exclusiveness. They are to my mind the greatest (and a most insidious) evil in the present constitution of the college, and are the nurseries both of extravagance and of vicious habits. Their debasing effect on those who aspire to them as a mark of distinction is, I apprehend, not realized by the faculty, though Yale offers such a warning example of the same corruption. How far it is well or possible for the authorities to interdict such associations and how far to check them...
There is, to my mind, not one good reason for tolerating these contests away from the college; and if there were, it would be far outweighed by the pecuniary consideration just advanced, the distraction from the main end of college life, the encouragement given to the gambling spirit so strong in the American breast, and the hostile feelings engendered and perpetuated between colleges whose only rivalry should be in the domain of the intellect. I am firmly persuaded that the intercollegiate sports are as much chargeable with the survival of the traditional animosity between Yale and Harvard, for example...
...class of eighty-six gathers together almost for the last time as a class. Nothing that we can say will fully express the thoughts which must fill the mind of every senior as his class day dawns upon him. All the memories of four years crowd upon him and force home the conviction, hard at first to gain, that college days are days of the past. The present senior class have seen many changes at Harvard since their entrance as freshmen, and it is said that the present year will witness a greater change than any yet inaugurated, - the abolition...
...interest to mention what time is usually made for various distances. Anywhere from twenty to twenty-five minutes is about the average time made by college crews for a four-mile race, - although last year Harvard's time was even more than this, - but it must be borne in mind that on that day the conditions of the course were especially unfavorable. For a two mile contest from ten to twelve minutes, is good time. Two years ago the Columbia freshmen won in nine minutes and a fraction, but it is doubtful whether this record will be reached again, unless...