Word: points
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...form an excellent team. There are twenty-six candidates, counting Henshaw, who is trying for change catcher on the 'varsity. Bingham is the most promising man for pitcher, and McPherson for change pitcher. Bingham has had much experience. His curve is better than the average. McPherson's best point is speed. For change catcher Young is a very good man. '89 seems extremely fortunate in having two such good men as she has for this important place. Raymond and McKay are also good men who are trying for this position. Hurley is a candidate for change pitcher...
...point on which Dr. Hale in his letter lays most stress is that some means of moral guidance ought to be assured the student. "We grant great freedom in the choice of study. But, we do not mean to have any senior . . . . say to us that since he entered college no one ever told him that there is a difference between Right and Wrong." This is trite enough, of course. No one denies for a moment that some means of moral guidance ought to be assured. But is the only way of affording this moral guidance by means...
...advantage if improvement is desired in the power of criticism, description, narration, exposition and argumentative composition. There is far too little "college reading." Our four courses are not, after all, the whole substance of a good year's work at college. But space forbids further discussion at this point. We trust, however, that the matter will soon be presented more cogently and at greater length...
...clock in the evening of the day appointed, all wearing caps and gowns; the coffin containing the doomed book was borne by six pall-bearers, who were effectively, though perhaps somewhat inappropriately dressed in costumes of red flannel with tails attached. The procession marched from its rendezvous at some point in the city out to the college grounds to the solemn strains of the dead march. Torches were carried, red light, and other fire-works displayed. Arrived at the campus, the coffin was placed upon a tall funeral pile which had been prepared, the match applied, and while the flames...
...felt at once. If, instead of two long examinations a year, several short ones were given and their results averaged, I think a step would be taken in the right direction, for then the ground gone over would be less, and the labor of preparation decreased, which is the point at which we are aiming...