Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...crosse should lend his presence on Jarvis to aid the twelve. It is still early for a large crowd, but those who wish to learn this interesting game should begin early. A little perseverance will enable new men to get the hang of it, and then all is plain sailing. Old and new players alike should wake up. A sport which is looked upon with approval by the college and which has been in the past so generally successful, should get its full share of active support on the field...
...powers which go to the building up of human life, and say that they are the power of conduct, the power of intellect and knowledge, the power of beauty, and the power of social life and manners-he can hardly deny that this scheme, though drawn in rough and plain lines and not pretending to scientific exactness, does yet give a fairly true representation of the matter. Human nature is built up by these powers; we have the need for them all. This is evident enough, and the friends of physical science will admit it. But perhaps they...
...absurd it is, people end by saying, to inflict this education upon an industrious modern community, where very few indeed are persons of leisure, and the mass to be considered has not leisure, but is bound, for its own great good, and for the world's great good, to plain labor and to industrial pursuits, and the education in question tends necessarily to make men dissatisfied with these pursuits and unfitted for them...
There are always two sides to every question and these two sides seem very plain in the case of the Hamilton College seniors. From the published statements it would seem that, not in any respect different from most such cases, both parties, the faculty and the seniors,-are more or less in the wrong. But it is always inadvisable for outsides to attempt to pass any pronounced judgments on such matters, as the means of correct information are always limited. Every college student knows how much his actions are miss-represented and misunderstood by the outside world and, we presume...
...Harvard toward the ideal university, and what makes this step more unendurable is its absolute uselessness. We have been yielding gradually to the views of the faculty on this point, and have tacitly been granting the necessity of some regulation of athletics. But, to state the question in plain terms, what evidences have we seen of this necessity? What has been done by the athletes of our college in the past few years that necessitates some regulation by a kind faculty? We have been playing a rather rougher game of football than in the past. True...