Word: perform
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...interference. This system of assistance to a runner, which has come to be known as interference, is the real feature of the season's work. Last year there was a little of it, but the runners who could take advantage of it were few, and the men who could perform it well were less, so that it made no strong impression. The games of this fall have been replete with...
...question, "what after all is the purpose of college life?" he cannot fail to see the justice of the faculty's regulation. College life is free and easy, and athletics particularly so engaging that it is very easy for us to forget the higher duties we are here to perform. But intellectual culture is, or ought to be after the primary aim of college life. Athletics are well in their place-are essential, in fact, but just as soon as they begin to absorb the best of our energies, a halt must be called. And this is virtually what...
...will be immediately seen that by the working of 16 and 17 any student who has failed to perform satisfactorily his work, and has been dropped from his class at the end of the year, will be put upon probation the next year, and will be subject to all the restrictions of men on probation; this means among other things that he will not be allowed to play on any college athletic team, or take part in any entertainment given by musical or other organizations of the college. The regulations will interfere with those men only who are disposed...
...view of the recent discussion about college discipline is so suggestive, that I venture to call your attention to it. Speaking of the discipline of colleges and universities Smith says: "Its object is, in all cases, to maintain the authority of the master, and, whether he neglects or performs his duty, to oblige the students in all cases to behave to him as if he performed it with the greatest diligence and ability. It seems to presume perfect wisdom and virtue in the one order, and the greatest weakness and folly in the other. Where the masters, however, really perform...
Professor Alexander Johnston of Princeton, who has been unable to perform his college work this year on account of sickness, has prepared a new and enlarged edition of his valuable "History of American Politics" and will also publish soon a "History of the United States...