Word: rather
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President Eliot, in his report, shows the progress that has been made in regard to entrance examinations in English and the classics, and states that the instruction of the college has been directed to giving command over the languages, rather than to securing knowledge of certain pieces of Latin and Greek. In this connection he emphasizes the advantages of the sight reading system and points out the good tendencies of the method now recognizable. The endeavors of the faculty to improve the teaching of elementary science in the secondary schools is next touched upon, and the results of voluntary chapel...
...pugilism, we are sure that every man with a healthy mind will agree with Prof. Sargent that exhibitions of pugilism are degrading. It has come to pass that the efforts of the boxers are directed to hard hitting rather than to the practice of the nice points of attack and defence. The fighters and the spectators are more delighted by a blow that draws blood than by the most skilful pass or parry. Slugging is the modern art. Boxing in public is not an exhibition of the art which gentlemen practice for the development of the body and to stimulate...
...even in such clubs men would cheat, but the feeling that if any one should cheat, he would have the club at his mercy. The other members would then have to expel him unanimously; or, failing of unanimity, some would have to resign and so break up the club rather than remain associated with him; and this sort of aggressive righteousness was to much to expect from men bred in our atmosphere. A challenge to that kind of righteousness was, it seemed. one which we could hardly count on men's accepting...
...Four 'Funny' Characters," is a cynical sketch of the life of four different types of college student. The style is rather too jerky and unpolished. Carlyle is jerky and unpolished; but Carlyle is forcible. Nobody can read "My Friend Blobbs" without enjoying its cleverness and the clear individuality which the writer makes out for his friend Blobbs. It seems he knows his man well, and he surely succeeds in making him "an open book" for all who will read this amusing sketch...
...pieces. "The Oak" is well-conceived; is very good in form. The writer has a peculiar bent toward this kind of simile and he handles it very well. Of even a more serious character than this short moral reflection is "A Song of Life and Death," which is a rather fine parable in verse. "Love's Arrow" and "The Rain" hardly deserve much comment...