Word: presented
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...following subjects are among those recently debated by the Oxford Union Society: Moved, That English manias in art, learning, and amusement are barbaric and unwholesome; Moved, That the present or any system of examination is as injurious as it is painful...
...this is true, it is possible that the popularity of the societies may follow their prestige. However, whether this occurs or not, you had better join one. If it does nothing more, it will serve as a bond of friendship between yourself and all the other members, past and present...
...means easy, especially when the subjects assigned are of the abstruse nature now coming into fashion. The writing of a few themes in the Freshman year would give instruction which there is little reason for postponingtill the Sophomore year. The Freshmen, it is true, have at present as much work required of them as they can perform; but if another suggestion of the Committee, proposing to lessen the amount of mathematics, be adopted, room could easily be made for the themes...
Wednesday, Jan. 24. - Twelve men present. Pull eight hundred strokes, and run two miles. The worst fault is still the hurried recover. Preston fails as much as any to part with this. He gets a trifle too much reach with his body, reaches around with his outside shoulder, fails to sit up always at the finish, and does not pull his hands in high enough. His chief fault is that of using his arms too much. At no part of the stroke are they straight. He works well, but should put more fire into the stroke. Harriman...
...subject of pecuniary aid to students, discussed by the President in his late report, is not entirely disconnected with other affairs in the College which it was not the business of the report to dwell upon. The fact that the present system of pecuniary assistance is not a success reminds me of other things about which the same thing might be said. The trouble, as I see it, is that the underlying principle is wrong. The aid is given as a means, and is not made an end; it is bestowed as a crust is flung to a beggar...