Word: reasoning
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Saratoga twisted and unfit for use. There were many repairs to be made, and all too little time for practice; and during the race an accident occurred, arising from this hasty construction and lack of time for repairs, which seriously affected the crew's time, and, there is good reason to suppose, their position. The value of the assistance was almost nullified by the delay with which it was given. Let it be this year realized that the English boat will cost the same, whenever it is bought, and that, ordered now, it will prove of the greatest importance; ordered...
...next season on the river. The time of year, we know, is not inspiriting, but if the club-system is to remain in existence, the officers of the clubs should exert themselves now to make it more of a success than it was last year. There is no reason why it should not succeed if the interest can be kept up. It is better than the old class-system it succeeded, but it needs at present some one to put life into it. We are sorry to hear that the captain of at least one club is anxious to perpetuate...
...advice to you is simply to play the part of a social chameleon. Adapt yourself to the company that you are in. If you can talk their shop-talk, talk it with them. If you cannot talk it, listen to them. But never assert yourself in opposition without real reason. Keep your ears open. Remember as much that you hear as possible, and don't speak it out at the wrong moment. Don't swear too often, for it spoils the effect of an oath, and besides it is rather vulgar. Don't use inappropriate slang, - such as "thundering quiet...
...safely secure the more industrious part of our students the permanent enjoyment of the positive advantages of the system . . . . . That these positive advantages of the voluntary system are not gained in full measure by the whole of any class may be freely admitted; but they should not for that reason be withheld from those whose dispositions to work and sense of duty may reasonably be expected to enable them to profit by such opportunities...
...late Convention of the Association. Three colleges - Cornell, Columbia, and Princeton - were represented, and the most important action taken was a resolution to row hereafter in four-oared instead of six-oared shells. The fear that this backward step would be taken was one of our strongest reasons for leaving the Association, and now we see that our apprehension was no idle fancy. We shall have next summer three separate intercollegiate contests, and every college, except Harvard and Yale, will row in four-oared boats. At the time of our fall races we said that the action of the Executive...