Word: partiality
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which to meet its actual expenses. This institution seems an exotic, but surely it should find at Harvard its native soil. It is suited to Harvard's needs, and could be made invaluable. These possibilities seem destined never to be realized. Appeal after appeal has been made, with only partial success. We do not expect to arouse Harvard to its center on the question of a life university reading-room similar to the one at Yale, but we do desire to stir only a few so that they will come forward and help the present reading-room. Only twenty subscriptions...
...first page, are interesting and somewhat significant. Because so this magazine says, it is a foregone conclusion that Harvard, Yale and Princeton will take the first three places in the present league, and because it is always claimed, "whether the claim be just or not," that the umpires are partial to the larger colleges, and finally because Williams herself has no possibility of getting into the league as now constituted, the plan of forming a new league to include Amherst, Brown, Dartmouth and Williams, is urged. Amherst and Dartmouth are said to be quite ready for the change, and Brown...
Again we see the same old spirit in the daily press, which is the outcome of, we know not what; love of sensation, desire to find some victim on whom they may pitch without fear of retaliation, jealousy, all these come in as partial causes. The result we know; exaggeration of the failings of college men, belittling of their virtues. If any little fracas occurs in a college town, if there is any unfortunate disturbance, at a ball, for instance, of course it is college men to whom it must be laid, and even if it is not quite certain...
...give below a partial list of the commencement exercises at a number of New England and New York colleges...
...believe that such a course would prove an eminently useful and desirable one to any student in college. There is a widespread ignorance of the laws of health among college students, and it is merely by accidental learning that such ignorance is in some cases exchanged for a partial information. But a course in sanitary science, and simple rules of medicine and surgery would be of great value. Such a course need go no deeper than what would be most useful in the ordinary contingencies of life, and to be successful should deal with such requirements only. This course could...