Word: phase
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...goes, it does not go far enough. It is not fair for a writer to attempt to give an account of such an institution as Harvard and then give only one side of it. Of course the book is not professedly an account of every phase of life in the university; but the fact that it takes the matter up at all would require that some slight mention at least be made of other sets besides that which Bixby and Symonds cultivated. For there is another "set" here, and a very large one it is. Unfortunately no author has ever...
...This ignoring of girls is a curious phase in the development of the masculine mind. There would almost seem to be a polaric relation between the sexes; a magnetic attraction or repulsion, which varies with different ages as a magnet itself varies with the spots on the sun. Thus, from infancy to youth, boys run away from girls. From youth to marriage, girls run away from boys. After marriage, they run away from each other...
...project it says: "There are canoes enough in college, but any sport to be enjoyable must be companionable, and it is not strange that the old individual style of canoeing fails to arouse a lasting-interest. Recent experiments and improvements in canoe sailing have introduced an entirely new phase of the sport, and removed a vast deal of unnecessary labor. We hear every summer of the pleasant cruises of countless clubs, yet nothing has ever been done here to inaugurate such a movement." Such considerations as these would apply with equal force at Harvard. There are many reasons why there...
...November; but unless contributions sufficiently meritorious are received from '85, no choice will be made. We hope that those who wish to enter college journalism will take advantage of these opportunities, assuring them that their labor will be repaid threefold, not only by the pleasure derived from one phase of college life, but by the not inconsiderable mental profit resulting...
HARVARD indifference has been harped upon till every one is weary of the sound, nevertheless it is necessary to bring it up for discussion once more. The phase of the complaint which has been developed during the past year is an inclination to growl at the defeats of the Nine, coupled with a refusal to be present at the games, even if played in Cambridge. But there is a step even lower than this; the work of preparation for the annual examinations may render it impossible to attend base-ball games, but no such plea can be urged...