Word: proved
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...called "self-made men" point with a just pride to Abraham Lincoln and to Peter Cooper and ask . "What better men than these, do the colleges turn out ?" It is not my purpose to discuss how many college men may be but pedants and dreamers, nor to attempt to prove that "self-made men" may be woefully lacking in all real worth, but my object is simply to show by taking representatives from Harvard alone, how many of the foremost men in America for the last two hundred and fifty years have received a college training...
...boys, both old and young, are always excessively jolly on these occasions, and sometimes their conduct wakes the echoes under the towering elms of the college yard; but they generally know and recognize the bounds of propriety, and keep within those limits. It is hoped that this commencement will prove no exception to the rule, especially in view of the peculiar interest taken in the affairs of the university this year. Any lowering of the standard now would no doubt be the occasion of just such an order as has been reported this year, but which happily proves to have...
...courses to be completed by a half year's work, is a wise one and is a movement in the right direction. The advantages it offers are obvious, and it is certainly to be hoped that the experiment next year will meet with complete success. If the plan does prove successful there would seem to be no reason why it should not be largely extended and made to include under its operations many other courses. Indeed, it is a question that may well be asked, why all our courses are not half-year courses? Such is the method pursued...
...that the secretary of the cricket club has been unable to arrange matches this spring with Columbia and Princeton, since these teams are more evenly matched against ours. The matches arranged are, May 24th, Haverford College, and May 25th, University of Pennsylvania. Haverford has a strong team and will prove a very dangerous adversary, while the University of Pennsylvania presents almost as strong an eleven as America can show. Going to Philadelphia, the home of American cricket, our eleven can hardly hope for much success, though the practice it will get will tend to very good results in the future...
Baker's injury in the Princeton game will not prove serious. He was ready to play within twenty minutes after it was received. Le Moyne's ankle is sprained, though not severely, and he will be able to play in two or three days...