Word: parts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...without exception, one of the finest of all physical exercises. It develops especially the lower portion of the chest, the legs and arms. Running, at a regular and fixed pace; boxing, to teach one to keep the temper under adverse circumstances; rowing, and canoeing, to strengthen the upper part of the thorax and chest, are useful. The benefit to be derived from regular practice in a gymnasium, by which the mind and nerve-centres are so trained that they have a certain amount of control over the body, and while the muscles may give out, this mental power when once...
...other college classes the affair has assumed such unexpected proportions as to seriously menace the welfare of the institution, since we recognize that obedience to constituted authority is essential to the existence of any institution, and since this affair can only be settled by some concession on our part. we willingly concede the following: That, since as a class we have been and intend to be law-abiding students, we regret the act of disobedience and apologize...
...Taussig, instructor in Political Economy, in which attention is called to the question of government telegraphy. The desirability and feasibility of making the telegraph a government institution is clearly shown. This method has been in vogue in England ever since 1868 with very good results, due in a great part to the purity of the civil service there. The only thing which prevents its adoption here is the bad state into which our government service has come under the "spoils system." As this, however, is being rapidly done away with, we may look forward to cheaper and more efficient telegraph...
...removing this objection, appeals indirectly to Harvard, and its plea deserves to be presented and considered. Three years ago a Harvard man undertook to teach the Exeter students the Harvard stroke, but we are under the impression that his efforts were not rewarded with sufficient results on the part of the Exeter students. We are sure that several men could be found who would be willing to teach Exeter the Harvard stroke, provided they were assured careful work and strict attention...
Though the appointment of professors and instructors in the various departments should by no means rest with the students, still the feeling of the students in regard to appointments ought not to be overlooked. If the students cannot respect an instructor's methods of instruction a large part of the benefit of his teaching, even if there is any real merit in it, is lost. Prescribed courses are at the best apt to be unpopular, and in such cases there is all the more reason for choosing men whose abilities will command the respect of those studying under them, while...