Word: properity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this one of note-taking would seem to be most powerful. In the great majority of our courses text books are either wanting or are of only subordinate importance; and the student is made almost entirely dependent on his careful attention, quick perception and selective faculties to obtain in proper shape a digest of the instructor's lectures. These digests, together with the results of outside reading, give the student a collection of facts far superior to the best of the text books. This may be said advisedly for the first effect of the concentration of mind in taking notes...
...that the class of '89 is more unhappily constituted than its predecessors, or that, if a just statement of the case be made to its members, they will will refuse to bear their fair share in the support of our athletics. The deficit may arise from a lack of proper canvassing. We sincerely trust that this is the only reason, and that the freshmen, if personally solicited, will contribute with pleasure their quota to the general Boat Club fund...
These college sports should be kept within proper and safe limits. There is President Bartlett, of Williams College, in the dry docks with a broken arm, caused by falling on the ice, and Professor Sumner, of Yale, in the ditto with a ditto, caused by falling off a bicycle. It is high time the students held a meeting to consider how far it is safe to allow the faculty to go in their reckless love of manly sports. - Elmira Advertiser...
...proper study of mankind is man." The writer throughout is bright, entertaining, and incisive. But the immoderate application of well-known aphorisms detracts seriously from the freshness and value of the thought. The central idea of the paper is "The present lies four-square, and the sides are self, civilization, raw material, and fellow...
...Bruner, '86, and Wheeler, '86. Forthingham, '86, and Craig, '87, are enlisted for the pole vault. Almost all of these men are well fitted for other positions besides the ones that they are credited as trying for, and it seems as if there would be no question that with proper work as good a team as ever could be gotten together. It is to be hoped that '89 will not remain in the background, but that some of her good men will not be slow in coming forward and attempting to gain positions in the team which will necessarily need...