Word: points
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...senior year, the ever recurring question is "What shall I make my life work?" Happy are those men who have a decided bent in some direction and who are never tormented by the thought of their future occupation. College is the place to try men's capabilities and to point out to them their special talents. But unfortunately at graduation many students are in deeper despair and doubt than they were on entering college. Why is this? The trouble largely lies in their ambition. They desire to excel in what they attempt, a natural and honorable ambition. But they...
...carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, each of them an essential constituent of the body. All food should be well masticated, and the proportion of vegetable and animal foods eaten carefully considered. When a portion of food, or drink, saliva, or any other substance has been carried back past a certain point on the posterior part of the tongue, it is completely out of our power to resist swallowing. After leaving the mouth the food passes through the oesophagus to the stomach, which is a hollow muscular organ, and provided with a number of glands which produce the gastric juice. The muscles...
...accounts, and that with this condition favorable, Harvard is a good place for a man to have a good time, and to see something of the world, but that he must do his studying elsewhere. Nothing is more erroneous than this idea. Harvard is a place where, in point of wealth, the extremes meet, and that is just what the governing authorities intend it should be. To the young man with money, that he doesn't know what to do with, every opportunity is afforded of spending it. The tuition fee is high, and expensive board and rooms...
...perusal of them can possibly be to the reader; yet we must once more raise our voices in protest against the temperature of the Chapel. Of late there has been no pretense made of heating the place, and yesterday morning the temperature was very near the zero point. It is positively inhuman in the persons who are responsible for this condition of affairs to let things go on as they have been going. A few more experiences like that of yesterday, and the students, on going into this ice-house, may be compelled by unbearable cold to adjourn...
...accurs to all is, that the freshmen are not as yet members of any society, and are therefore saved all society expenses. It is answered that they have their own teams to support, and that those teams are more expensive than other class organizations; the upper classes can simply point to the similarity of conditions in their own cases and ask that for the sake of courtesy, if for no other more patriotic motive, their successors in their turn bear the burdens they have borne. Every freshman class undergoes the same test as to its interest in college athletics...