Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college societies possess the power of influencing college thought by the lectures given under their auspices so distinctly as a philosophical society. The work of a financial, historical, or literary society is in a certain sense limited, both in its usefulness and influence to its work and the students who pursue kindred work in their studies. But the work of a society of which the scope is so extensive as that of a philosophical society, is of interest to all who pretend to any degree of sober thought. The lecture which was given last year under the auspices...
...level of such institutions as the Institute of Technology, the School of Mines, or the Stevens Institute, is to be praised and encouraged. Our university attracts students from all over the country to its Law and Medical Schools, and we may expect that its Scientific School will some day possess an equally great attraction...
...perfect himself in the peculiar style which chance or his early education may have led him to adopt. If he gets a chance to study other themes besides his own, he gets new ideas, he sees an entirely different style which has certain charms which his own does not possess, and almost unconsciously the beauty of the ideas and of the well turned sentences will react upon him, improving his writing in the course of a year almost beyond recognition. It is true that we get something of this sort by reading the college papers, more especially the Monthly...
...methods and results of our gymnasium work as has never previously been given. It has never fallen to the lot of an American university before to be able to exhibit to the admiring eyes of its friends such a number of champion teams as is our good fortune to possess at present, and if Harvard enthusiasm is not thoroughly aroused thereby, we certainly mistake the spirit of the university...
...probably known to most of our readers that Yale athletics suffer greatly from the want of a gymnasium adequate to the needs of the large number of athletic organizations which Yale possesses. A few evenings ago a large mass meeting of the Yale students, under the presidency of Prof. Richards, met to discuss the project of a new gymnasium. According to reports five or six hundred members of the college attended the meeting, and great interest was taken. The opinion of Prof. Richards - and his opinion seems to have been shared by the students - was that it was too great...