Word: pointed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...forced to act in a certain manner during lectures, that they are perfectly free to abuse this privilege howsoever they see fit, "from rolling pennies down the aisle," to reading papers and talking. To men who are given to such practices as these, it may be entirely futile to point out to their callous sense of honor that they not only show the greatest disrespect to their instructors, not only waste their time and utterly loose sight of the prime object of a man's entering college, but also become exceedingly obnoxious to a large majority of the class...
...promising of recent graduates recalls painful memories of that forcing system which has so long been in vogue at my own university. The leader of my class shortly after entering upon his sophomore work died of brain fever. The brightest light of the class of '78 was on the point of being graduated with highest honors. His overwork for scholarships and other means of support had brought on severe headaches. A few weeks before commencement he became violently insane and died before his class graduated. My own room-mate in his efforts to retain his scholarship neglected exercise...
With the exception of Harvard, no university in America offers more advantages in fellowships and scholarships than Yale; and those at Yale, though far less in number than those at Harvard, are yet, on an average, superior in value and in time of incumbency. The first in point of age is the Douglass Fellowship founded by Mrs. Samuel Miller in memory of her brothers,who were both Yale graduates. This fellowship, wiht a yearly income of $600, may be held for three years. The Soldiers' Memorial Fellowship yields also an income of $600, but it is more valuable than...
June 16. Bergen Point in Cambridge...
...Harvard team was made up as follows: Goal, Drake; point, Naumberg; cover-point, Pulsifer; 1st, 2nd, 3d defence field, Griswold, Griffing, Towle; 1st home, Thorndike; 2nd home, Hughes; 1st and 2nd attack field, Kilvert and Davidson; cetre, Rourke...