Word: powerlessness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...president himself has already called careful attention to the subject in his last annual report; and still there is no response even to his appeal. Where the fault lies we do not know. The matter one of those in which the students themselves are virtually powerless. But wherever the power is vested it ought to be used. As long, certainly, as we are deprived of the fullest posible privileges of our library, we are parially rebbod of those, high education advantages which Harvard aims so proudly. Our faculty we feel assured have befriended our request-and the corporation last year...
...question was one for the convention to settle and should have been brought up before it when it was met. This sudden and decidedly questionable shift on the part of the Yale captain is not without its meaning. It means that in his point of view he is powerless to change the schedule arranged by the convention, and that therefore the Harvard-Yale game must take place in New York. As Harvard cannot play in New York, Yale will have victory without a struggle. The constitution of the association is the only safeguard of the Yale management; its technical declared...
President Eliot, in his address to the Conference meeting. said that few students imagined the importance to the faculty of college public opinion. as in many cases the faculty were powerless without it. Drinking, cheating and lying are cases where the only cure is in the education of public opinion. Another example is the toleration among gentlemen of foul play in athletics, making an umpire needful to punish it. Howling at "errors" is extremely ungenerous and unsportsman-like. and is never seen in English universities. The chief object of college education is to implant in tellectual ambition and a high...
...mind towards institutions of education. Many seem to regard Harvard as a patent machine, warranted by the corporation and faculty to take any material in its grip, and, after four years, turn out a first-class scholar and gentleman. No matter how ill prepared, how feeble the mind, how powerless the will, how vicious the habits, how indolent the nature, how undisciplined the character, Harvard is to turn them, one and all, into scholars and useful citizens. Much is done. The great majority, of whom little is heard, are developed and improved. After many years of close observation...
...directors are now practically powerless in the matter, but if an inspector responsible solely and directly to the association were to be appointed this state of things could soon be remedied. The changes which have been suggested can be made only by the authority of the corporation, and their attention should be called to the matter. Even if this plan may not seem expedient yet some determined effort should be made immediately to save the digestions of those unfortunates who "feed" at Memorial...