Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Globe of yesterday contained an article on Harvard students which should be read by every one who feels any interest in Harvard. It will do much to correct the erroneous views of the bulk of the people in regard to Harvard students. People in general, and particularly Western people, have an idea that it is impossible for any man unless he has unlimited means to send his sons to Harvard. But "there is no doubt a moneyed atmosphere there, but there is underneath that a stratum of air which a visitor never breathes, which Boston people seldom know...
Theme VI. will be due May 11. Subjects: 1 - Is a president necessary in our national government? 2 - Thackery and Fielding compared as novelists. 3 - A description of the American national character. 4 - The relative advantages of lectures and recitations. 5 - Should our State department be more aggressive in regard to the imprisoned Irish-Americans? 6 - Description of an ocean voyage. Any one who desires to choose his own subject may do so, provided he gives notice to the instructor...
...readily appreciate the liberties allowed us, in regard to attendance at recitations, when we read that at Cornell "only two cuts in drill may be made up this term. All cuts in excess of two will count against the standing at the end of the term...
...that coat of "indifference," would raise the college records by livelier competition. Perhaps we may ascribe this neglect to the unavailable manner in which the shot and hammer are stored away. Let us suggest they be exposed to the public view. But this latter objection does not hold in regard to the running long jump, since the sod is always turned on Jarvis. The custom is for men to enter the sports without practice and to make a record worthy of a juvenile athletic association. Here are several grand opportunities of securing with firmer hold the collegiate championship...
...preliminary games with professional teams show the Harvards to be the best prepared college team. But playing professional teams, in which the collegians have nothing to lose and everything to win, is a very different thing from playing for the championship, when both sides become unnerved by anxiety in regard to the result, and fail to play in the good form they show against the professionals. The coolest team of the three rivals - Harvard, Yale and Princeton - will win the first game of the series they play together. - [N. Y. World...