Word: older
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...section who answers "not prepared" will not be called upon again during the remainder of the year. He also says that hereafter a certain mark will be given for work done in recitation. It is but a few weeks since a like pronunciamento was put forth by another and older instructor in the same department. This seems to us an entirely wrong principle to work on and a highly obnoxious one. To deprive a man of all chance of obtaining a certain mark for his study because he may have once been deficient seems unjust...
...believe that the undergraduates are entirely competent to make all necessary rules, to settle all disputes, either directly or by arbitration, and to exercise a general supervision over all necessary measures in their particular departments. Controversies are as likely to arise between members of a committee composed of older men as between undergraduates, as the experience of the past has shown...
...Republicans who favor Civil Service Reform, which was held in New York a few days ago, is another proof of the expediency of doing something to stir up the students on this most important subject. This meeting was called by young men, and was managed by them throughout, the older leaders deferring that to them entirely. Within a few years those now in college will be at just the right age for this work, and their influence, if they are properly instructed now, will be immense. Moreover, these young men at New York, of whom several were graduates of Harvard...
...death of Wendell Phillips, Harvard loses another of those great men of an older generation of graduates to which Emerson and Sumner belonged. Mr. Phillips' life was so much a part of the history of our people that any account of it would be superfluous. A member of the class of 1831, Mr. Phillips signalized the fiftieth anniversary of his graduation by his well known Phi Beta Kappa address, in which he charged upon the educated men of the country their disregard of questions of public good. This address which attracted so much adverse criticism has been considered by many...
...crews" their coaches; why not the nine? If a man began the study of the classics or in fact any branch of learning unaided by an instructor, he would soon come to a stop and make no advance whatever without professional aid. Unless students learned their knowledge from older and abler men, fit to impart it, there would be but few who would educate themselves unaided. This fact might be applied to athletics as well as to classics and the result would be as gratifying in the former as it has proved to be in the latter. The influence...