Word: picks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...find or to teach any adequate system of oratory is another reason for the neglect of our colleges to teach oratory. Assuming that the old inability is still upon us, colleges that forty years ago miserably failed to teach oratory still cry out, "We care not. Let a man pick up his oratory. Go and be like Edward Everett and Wendell Phillips, if you can; but don't bother us asking from us the impossible...
...head of the '87 column was borne a transparency bearing the legend - "We are John Harvard; take your pick." A second bore two verses from Holmes' celebrated poem about "the freshman class of one," while the third, and most amusing, read as follows: "We are the oldest living undergraduates; We entered in 1657 and expect to graduate in 1887; Disfigured, but still in the ring; We live in hope...
...more improvement of late than any man on the team, though he tackles high. Faulkner does not watch his end well; but he is quick in getting through, and tackles low. He follows the ball well, but in so doing leaves his end uncovered. Fletcher has a tendency to pick up the ball instead of dropping on it. He does not pass hard enough, and does not use his head in his own running. He keeps his eyes open, however, and watches his chances well. Porter has shown marked improvement in the last week, but he still fumbles badly...
...confusing complexity and many-sidedness of life and its occupations. He will find himself surrounded by such a mass of things which by some desire he is impelled to do, that the truth is soon forced upon him that he cannot hope to accomplish them all, but must pick and choose, and be content with the accomplishment of the most important of them. This is apropos of the choice of electives. The same principle is at work in both cases. We find ourselves placed before a distracting labyrinth of knowledge, and the command given us, "Choose!" Some of us want...
...with a very unsatisfactory response. One of our correspondents, in the CRIMSON for March 29 exclaims: "Why publish disquisitions in your columns on the evils of cribbing and the status of that art at Harvard? Why drag this disgusting subject to the light, and care fully analyze it and pick it to pieces, any more than the subject of thievery or drunkenness?" With this writer we have no sympathy. We would ask him, what special bearing the subject of thievery or drunkenness has on the value of a college degree, or on a college's reputation? On the other hand...