Word: points
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...subject of Anglomania has perhaps had quite enough prominence in our columns. We may, however, be pardoned for once more touching upon it ourselves. All the writers on Anglomania seem to agree on one point, namely, that they want a true patriotism among American students. But their ideas as to methods for securing this seem to differ widely. One faction would have us avoid all following after English ways; the other faction protests against such a "narrowing down of our models," and urges us to be Englishmen if we think Englishmen superior to Americans. This apparent contradiction is rather...
...response to the earnest appeals of his American scientific friends, Tyndall came to this country. Before deciding to come, however, he received repeated assurances from various sources, that it would be a profitable trip to him from a money point of view. In reply to these supposed allurements, he said that he would come, if he came at all, because his friends thought he would aid the cause of science in America, and not a dollar would he carry out of the country...
...large number of advocates of physical training from different colleges met in Brooklyn last week. Among those who attended the meeting were Professor Richards, of Yale; Dr. Sargent, of Harvard; the Rev. Dr. Hitchcock, of Amherst; William Blaikie, of New York; Professor Koehler, of West Point; Professor McIntyre, of Lafayette; Dr. Seaver, of Yale; and several others. The persons present listened to addresses upon matters relating to physical culture, and it was decided to form a permanent association. The name adopted was The Association for Advancement of Physical Education. The following officers were elected: president, Dr. Hitchcock; vice-presidents, Professors...
...crossing the yard. This rule, however, does not seem to apply to the Cambridge non-collegiate youths who assemble daily on the avenue in front of the library and play "polo" to the great inconvenience of all who have to cross the yard. Consistency has never been a strong point of the faculty, but here at last is a chance for them to shine forth in a new light...
...departments. What is needed is organization. Chaos may be full of energies, but those energies are pretty sure to be ill-directed and ineffectual. That so great an institution should be ruled by an active energetic central board would seem to be a self-evident proposition. The point we would make against the corporation as now constituted is not that it contains too many ministers, or that not enough denominations are represented in it, but that it is inefficient; that it fails both to perform the duties developing upon it by law and to provide any substitutes to perform them...