Word: problems
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...presented in the strongest light. If these arguments are conclusive, an expression of opinion to that effect on the part of college students themselves, who are, of course, the persons most interested in the matter. will, without doubt, have considerable influence in bringing about a proper solution of the problem. If, on the other hand, as we believe, the arguments are weak and one-sided, there is no more appropriate place to expose their vulnerable points than at such a meeting as that of tonight, at which men who can speak from experience will be present and will give their...
...stop and commiserate the sorrows of this noble unfortunate. Cold conventionality has held me back. And I have asked with Homer, "Who is he and whence among men; who were his parents and where is his goodly dwelling?" But I have never learned the answers to these questions. The problem of the man with the iron mask counts as nothing with me; here is a secret twice as strange and impenetrable. Some noble object must be his; why does he linger among us - among us and yet not of us? Is he a Polish exile; or was his home once...
...next six months. As it is well known that weak men at the beginning make greater relative development under the same condition than strong men, these prizes offer a special inducement to the men who most need the training they call for, and hence admirably solve the problem. They are not merely open as are the prizes at the athletic games, to the few strong men of the college, but to everybody - the pale, consumptive-looking senior and the diminutive fresh. - [Univ...
Boating men at Yale are enthusiastic over the new freshman coxswain. He weighs about a hundred pounds when out of training, and will train down a good deal below that figure. In the distant future of education in this country looms up the problem of how closely a coxswain can approach' the line which separates entity from nothingness, and still be able to steer a shell between two rows of flags...
Daniel Pratt has at length unearthed the corner-stone of modern knowledge. He declared that "the unabridged dictionary is the most sane and valuable book in the world; that it is the key to every problem...