Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rarity in the line of professional trainers, and Yale deserves to be congratulated on her good luck. Don't be selfish, dear friends. If there really is some magic charm in these Yale ideas, do tell us what it is, so that we too may labor to possess it. We have our own idea of what Yale ideas are, but we should really like to hear them defined by some of those who are brought up and nourished under their influence. [Princetonian...
...devil is usually at hand to help them kill it. Second are those who, while they appreciate the value of a college education, let a spirit of indolence or overweening interest in other matters draw them from their duties. The third class commonly known as 'digs,' are those who possess a stern sense of duty, or in whose minds the seeds of wisdom have sprung up and reach out their tiny leaflets on every side sucking in like the maelstrom, everything which comes within its reach...
...this is not enough. Weight and strength combined with skill in football as experience has shown will surely defeat a moderately skillful team unaided by these other qualifications. Therefore we hope the captain will call upon all men in the class, old players or not, who are likely to possess the requisite weight, strength and endurance to present themselves as candidates and learn the game. Freshman year, if ever, is the time best suited for developing new players, and no opportunity for securing in this way the best possible eleven should be neglected...
...best by the boards of both papers to effect a consolidation, and by uniting their interests to form a new paper, which, while naturally partaking of much of the character of the former publications, would yet be free from many of the disadvantages under which they labored, and would possess a much wider range of possibilities than was open to either the Herald or the Crimson. We believe that a first-class college daily is now almost a necessity, and we also believe that it is possible to maintain one here at Harvard. It will therefore be our endeavor...
...have forgotten that the safety of our system lies, not in the learning of the few, but in the intelligence of the many. A national university could not diffuse education, it could only impart to a very few a degree of learning which most men are not ambitious to possess, and which is powerless to make them better citizens or more upright men." Our Vermont friend is also of the opinion that a national university would be a fruitful source of political corruption, and that the management would be fettered by congressional experiments and investigations. "It means that the revolution...