Word: points
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...above clipping plainly shows that the knowledge of the "Ebb and Decline of Bicycling at Harvard" is not confined to the college alone. When a sport, so prominent in English universities and on the increase there and in this country, has come to such a point as this, it is time that something was done; either it must be dropped altogether, or elevated to the position where it belongs. It is a deplorable fact that, among the candidates for the Mott Haven team, there is not one man trying for the bicycle race. Last year there was but one representative...
...light and consciences so easy (we would not say callous) that, where-as they might have been intellectual, they have been content to be merely clever. It must be acknowledged that in this Puritan part of the world they have given us a new, if not an original point of view; they look upon the universe as a vast storehouse of possible amusements, and read, think and write, not in pursuit of truth, but for diversion. They all have written books; one or two of them have written well: but they are satisfied with their reputation for cleverness, and make...
...insufficient that we cannot conscientiously take any one on who has written so little. There ought surely in a class of 250 men to be some who are able to express their ideas clearly and concisely, or who can write an interesting first page article, - not necessarily long, but pointed and interesting. It ought to be a point of pride to '89 men to see that this position is filled before the base-ball season, so that their class may receive its representation when it becomes necessary to praise or to blame...
...definite way, the disadvantages of our present elective system. He endeavors to show that the step which Harvard took in throwing open the electives to freshmen was premature. As we have no system of school education in America which brings young fellows of eighteen or nineteen to that point of maturity in thought, and to that extent of general academical knowledge which is reached by the German gymnasia, he argues that it is, in part at least, the duty of an American University to complete this academical training. In other words, he would prefer to have prescribed work...
...Another point which Mr. Brearley leaves out of consideration is that the German students generally serve a year in the army, between their graduation from the high schools and their matriculation at a university. In this active, open air life, they learn a good bit of world-wisdom which serves them well in their general intellectual development. From all this, it must be perfectly patent to every unprejudiced mind that the German student, at nineteen or twenty years of age, is more competent to make his own selections in the matter of study than we are with our imperfect...