Word: powerful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...COLUMBIA RACE.The Columbia 'Varsity crew of last year was said to be one of unusual power and speed. It was thought that Harvard, if it won at all, would win by but a narrow margin. The event, however, proved this view to be a mistaken...
...arrived safely at Grays Hall, our destination, and after mounting inter-minable flights of stairs reached the room we sought, that of a gay and festive young sophomore, who gave us a most cordial welcome and who did every thing in his power, with utmost success, to make our visit agreeable...
...sleight of hand performers, roller-skaters, tight-rope walkers, etc. As President Gilman says, they have become the 'sham and shame' of American colleges. Every so-called university and college, no matter what its standing, the 'University of Cohosh' as well as Johns Hopkins or Harvard, has the power of conferring these degrees. To the outside world, that received from one is as good as the from the other, and so both are regarded as worthless. They are given in accordance with no general plan and for no special proficiency in any particular branch, but each year an army...
...outward form, dress, manners, language, etc. But I think no one will deny that it is shame-faced and cowardly and too often unwilling to raise its voice where deeper matters are concerned. This passivity of public opinion here is the great obstacle to investing our students with power, and one of the most damaging things to the college in the eyes of the outer world. But any tone can be changed by the cumulative energy of individuals working in the same direction for a series of years; and if, every year, twenty men with position, resolution and tact, would...
...They are benefits which, though unseen, are yet almost key-notes of life, as the force of gravity is the key-note of the life of the universe. To them we may also add the sociableness and friendships, always attendant upon a college career, and the critical nature and power of clear discernment, which seem to belong to college men, and by which a student is so quickly and generally so rightly estimated. Nowhere, more than at college, does a man pass for what he is and for what he is worth. The scholar and the frand alike, the genius...