Word: reasoner
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...race. We object to his apparently firm conviction that this race is to be henceforth and forever rowed at Springfield; and we do not believe with him that the fact that anything is done or left undone in the annual contest between Oxford and Cambridge is in itself sufficient reason that the same thing be done or left undone in the contest between Yale and Harvard. The article, however, contains good and pertinent ideas, and we commend it to the attention of the Executive Committee...
...nearly one half, since, in order to reach chapel, one must get to breakfast at least as early as half past seven; and even then there would be no enjoyment of the meal, but a rapid shovelling process, alike disagreeable and detrimental, would take place. Should we fail, by reason of a morning nap or otherwise, to reach the hall before this early hour, either breakfast or chapel must be sacrificed. A modifying suggestion to extend the breakfast hour from seven to half past eight has been made. This plan, which is certainly better than the first, will perhaps...
...NEVER see a proctor go by without feeling like praying for him. To think of the depth to which some of my fellow-creatures have sunk! To think that whole, able-bodied men, some of them peradventure endowed with reason, can thus grovel in the dust, and deceive themselves in the thought that they are pursuing their duty! O Popoi! how sad! how sad! Earth does not contain a more pitiful spectacle. And I wonder if any cruel Nemesis will reduce me to such a lot, and at once a cold chill pierces my marrow, my hands involuntarily seek...
...commence with the class of '51, we are met by the name of Professor Goodwin, "one of the few men who can reason scientifically on the subject of Greek tenses," as an English authority once said. In the next class was the late Chauncy Wright, one of the foremost American biologists; and in the next, President Eliot. The class of '55 contained Alexander Agassiz, recognized in this and other countries as an authority on natural history, and also Phillips Brooks, than whom there is scarcely a more prominent preacher in this country. In the next class we find...
There is another reason why the college rents are at present not too high. It is that every man has a right to get what price he can for his property, and as long as the rooms are regularly let at the present prices, it would be folly in the College to decrease them. Expensive rooms are provided for the wealthy, and comfortable, but plain ones for the poorer students. It frequently happens, too, that some of the best rooms in the Yard, - as some in Hollis and Stoughton, - are let at very low prices. Thus it is certain that...