Word: points
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...calling for an earlier honr for morning chapel services. This boast may seem to those, who know nothing of the matter, thoroughly justifiable; but it must seem to others, who understand the motives that prompt the movement, not so great a boast after all. The whole matter reaches a point of absurdity when it is known that the Yale sentiment was not after all as unanimous for early prayers as has been represented. We have been informed that quite as many are anxious for late as for early prayers, that the story of Yale's voting "with one voice...
...cheerfully grant that undergraduates are often unable to make valuable criticisms about their courses. Yet, on the other hand, it is frequently worth while to look at matters from our point of view. Accordingly we should like to call the attention of the French department to the present needs of many...
...true incidence of events. It is not sufficient to have read the newspapers for a number of years past, nor to have made a desultory study of history, in order that a man can read with intelligence the record of the present. There should be some one to point out the relation of what happens to-day to what has happened in the past; to amplify and explain this connection which newspapers either pass over entirely or speak of only in a misleading and blind...
...correspondent to-day, who complains of his first examination, certainly hits upon a very vital point in the whole system of examinations. We believe most devoutly that the system would have greater success and meet with good favor, if care were taken to have the examination papers easy. But, setting this matter aside, it is not inappropriate for us to make the few remarks, that this time of the year always suggests, on the manner of conducting examinations. We have already published some advice to proctors, which doubtless will not be heeded. We hope in addition that the rooms where...
...schools, which calls forth, on account of the proximity of London, a tremendous crowd of spectators. This game may be called the closing event of the London season, as the Oxford-Cambridge boat race may be said to inaugurate the season. The fashionable Londoner makes it a point to attend both events, if it be possible...