Word: plain
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...were engaged in a determined set-to. After a few moments one of the faculty appeared on the scene, and, mingling fearlessly in the thickest of the melee, succeeded in appropriating to his exclusive use the much disputed cane; after which he proceeded to lay down the law in plain language, and ordered the classes to disperse. The freshmen, however, soon appeared again with another stick, and proceeded to march through the town. The sophs followed and made two or three desperate attempts to obtain it, but in vain; and the victorious freshmen carried it triumphantly through the main streets...
...floor. The ribbon is started at a point midway between the two teams, each side pulling for ten minutes, according to the Mott Haven rules, and at the end of that time the team, which has the ribbon on its side, is declared the winner. It is plain that the great strength of the team lies in its power of endurance, and the regularity with which the members heave and drop together. The position of anchor requires a great deal of tact and skill, especially in taking up the rope as the team comes up after a pull. An anchor...
...plain that by the steady expansion and improvement of the elective system, the American college is to be gradually converted into a university of a new kind; not an English university, because it will not subordinate teaching to examining, or enforce any regulations by means of bars, gates and fines; and not a German university, because the elective system does not mean liberty to do nothing, and no American university has absolved itself, as the German university has done, from all responsibility for the moral training and conduct of students; but a university of native growth, which will secure...
...that the accommodations are now very good, but suppose the Union Company had requested those to sign who think that the railroad owners have at all times tried to please the public and furnish the best accommodations, how much of a response would the petition have met with? The plain truth of the matter is this: The Union Railroad Company in past times have never shown the least willingness to comply with the requests of their patrons until they were frightened into making an effort at improvement by the inception of a new railroad scheme. Why, then, should they expect...
...liberal studies instead of requiring a set examination. Obviously this plan can hardly be applied except in the higher and more advanced subjects, and even here presents certain difficulties hard to do away with. Yet in a genuine university it should not be impracticable, and its merits are so plain and reasonable as to commend it for trial at least. We sincerely hope that Harvard's former position as the initiator of all wise and liberal reforms in college instruction has not yet been lost to her; it is plainly her duty in the premises, as the senior American university...