Word: minor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Putting aside such minor considerations as the personal annoyance caused the students, and the danger of attending services held in a cold chapel, we deny the moral right of the authorities of a college to whip men into chapel when they are unwilling to attend. Men do not come to college to learn how to pray: as a rule, we think, they are quite capable of attending to their private devotions without any assistance. Students who are old enough for voluntary recitations are fully capable of responsibility on matters of religion. This, too, is generally recognized. The sole reason...
...dreps thirty pound dumbbells on the floor, is another variety. All tend to perfect repose and rest of mind. The janitor making the fires at 4 A. M., the click of the letter box in the early morning, and the peripatetic student overhead, who studies by the lap, are minor and soothing noises." We thank Snodkins for his courtesy; rise, bid him adieu, and leave the room just in time to hear a party of six or eight go tearing through the hall, and down the stairs, four steps at a time, yelling at the top of their lungs. "Stop...
...financial success of the eleven we are not yet prepared to speak. The audience at the Princeton game was gratifyingly large, but the minor games were somewhat meagerly attended...
...different extra men, makes it impossible to give a fair criticism of the rowing of the men as crews. To say nothing, therefore, of the uniformity of the crew, a few observations are no doubt allowable concerning a few faults common to several of the men. The minor faults of handling the oars in feathering, dipping, in a word, of watermanship, are very serious and only surmountable by longer experience, but the great aim of a crew eight months before its expected race should be to acquire the fundamental qualities absolutely necessary to effective rowing. These essential qualities are, ability...
...programme consisted of Beethoven's Leonora overture, No. 3, and prelude andante and gavotte by Bach. Schubert's fantasia in C for piano and orchestra and Volkmann's symphony in D minor. The overture has seldom been performed so well; it is a very exacting work, but was given with the greatest delicacy and finish. The Bach pieces were perhaps the gem of the evening; and their beauties were admirably brought out with a breadth and solidity which were charming. The soloist was Mr. Sherwood, who played the great Schubert fantasia magnificently, overcoming the technical difficulties with apparent ease...