Word: question
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...among the students at large, the study of Physics is neglected. Few take courses in the subject, unless they wish to become scientific specialists. Yet our new Physical Laboratory is an excellently equipped institution, and nothing except more men are needed. To day, it is true, the department in question labors under a disadvantage. The manner of conducting the required course in Physics for the classes of '86 and '87, hopelessly prejudiced many against that branch of science, by the end of the freshman year. Accordingly, the courses in Physics have not been large...
...nothing, and having used their war-worn phrases, passed them on to the Bungtown Clarion and sheets of a like stamp which flourish on the plains of Texas. According to this highly tinted fiction, Harvard is a hot-bed of incipient Nihilism and irreligion. Let us look at the question of irreligion for a moment. The statement on its face is a reproach, if not an insult, to the parents and friends of every Harvard student. For by their advice he has been led, not metaphorically speaking, to enter the den of thieves. But is it true...
...question of intellect versus affection has been annoying the young ladies of Oberlin to such a degree that they have been holding lively debates over it in a meeting of one of the Oberlin literary societies. That such a subject should gain prominence at Oberlin, and not only at Oberlin, but among the fairer students of Oberlin, is seriously significant. The last place where intellect, as it reaches higher spheres, would be expected to disregard affection is at a co-educational institution. Indeed, the great champions of co-education find herein one of their foremost arguments; with the young...
...Harvard spy-glass is not unknown in Boston theatres at certain seasons of the year, and that the writings of certain authors are a little more closely thumbed than the books of Miss Austin. But where is the harm in all this? "Boys will be boys, of course." The question then resolves itself into a question of innate morality. Are our ideas chronically immoral...
...large majority of men during the college course, and especially during the senior year, the ever recurring question is "What shall I make my life work?" Happy are those men who have a decided bent in some direction and who are never tormented by the thought of their future occupation. College is the place to try men's capabilities and to point out to them their special talents. But unfortunately at graduation many students are in deeper despair and doubt than they were on entering college. Why is this? The trouble largely lies in their ambition. They desire to excel...