Word: moment
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...which is the result of exclusive attention and concentrated desire to excel. Our elective and lecture systems, our evening readings, present so many branches of study in such varied and attractive forms, that we are tempted to sip the sweets of various flowers, and leave any of them the moment when the taste becomes less pleasant or the appetite is cloyed. Hence this prevailing superficialness; the vast majority of students will choose "soft" or entertaining courses, which have little or no connection one with the other; while the readings and lectures, like all royal roads to learning, disgust one with...
...watches to be taken into account. Time in a race is purely relative, and depends almost as much upon the defeated as upon the victors. In the fall of '74 the Matthews and Holyoke crews had a sharp struggle over the whole course, and up to the last moment it was uncertain which crew would win; it is therefore natural to conclude that the time of the winning crew was as good as it could make. On the other hand, the crew which won this fall was not hard pressed, it had no incentive to do better than...
...amount, because in the first year there are fewer general expenses than in other years, and large subscriptions can be more easily made. Other classes are assessed less, the Seniors least of all, because the expenses of a college course increase as one advances. We are sure that one moment's thought will convince every Freshman that he ought to do his share in supporting the University Crew by subscribing liberally towards paying its expenses...
...hope was held out that this annual payment might subsequently be diminished. Thus the average undergraduate physique was wonderfully to be developed. Healthy means of daily recreation were to be gained for every student. Dozens of athletes were thus to be kept in permanent training, ready at any moment to be put on the 'Varsity. "There would be an harmonious development of body and brains, the method pursued in the old Grecian gymnasia." And, finally, the emulation of the various boat-clubs was to cause most interesting and frequent races...
...collegians, especially members of the younger colleges, to understand that they are considered as of comparatively little importance, except by the juvenile portion of society, causes much amusement to their elders. Not that I would have the Freshman who entered college in June without a condition forget for a moment, during the summer, that he is a member of Harvard University, and that he must deport him self with becoming dignity; nor would I hint to the Sophomore that a great many of his acquaintances have heard college songs and stories before his appearance on the scene: but I would...