Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Character of Political Economy as a Study" is the second chapter. The qualities of mind necessary for a successful pursuance of the science are considered at some length. An appreciation of facts such as a practical business man possesses and a power to ascertain the governing laws, are the two qualities most needed in an economist. So widely different are these two qualifications that few men possess them, and for that reason we have few men who are really great in this science. Adam Smith, a man by training and profession devoted to the study of abstract and metaphysical subjects...
...freshmen rattled," "wretched game," "decided brace," etc. It is the custom for freshman teams to feel defeat. They need it. But to draw too hopeless a conclusion from defeat is not the means to accomplish a necessary end. It would be strange, indeed, if eighty-nine did not possess sufficient and suitable material to form a good eleven. There are good men in the class, and they need only the proper encouragement to go on the field. With a firm determination to success the freshmen can afford to get "rattled" and play a "wretched game," for there will ensue that...
...looking so earnestly for beef to fill her shells. Beef may be advantageous in the rushline of a foot-ball team, and I believe no doubt it is, but I certainly believe boating authorities make a great error in paying so much attention to weight. Naturally a heavy man possessed of proportionally increased strength is a desirable person, but I have often noticed that college crews pay more attention to securing men of weight than to an investigation of the sinew which the candidates may possess...
...that the library alcoves are the haunts of men whose shoulders are stooped and whose eyes are dimmed by a continued perusal of dismal texts. One should not sate himself with too much library but a judicious use of this advantage, among the many others which students in Cambridge possess, adds a depth and scope to a man's education which is absolutely essential to one who desires to be considered a cultured gentleman. Everyone must know how mortifying it is to have people talk to you about men of whom you have never heard or of books which...
There is one thing the students at Cornell enjoy which it is not our good fortune at the present time to possess That is a students waiting room in which men can stay comfortably between those recitations that are separated by an hour or so. For students rooming at some distance from the yard, and for them principally, such an arrangement would be an excellent thing. At Cornell, they have a large, well furnished, well heated room, containing several long tables covered with "exchanges" graciously donated by the Era. In fact, a place in which the men can read, smoke...