Word: reproaches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rushing game. They seldom not nice in the past two days stop a kick. and are so eager to get down the fiord that they do not protect the halfbacks sufficiently for the kick. In lining up to put the ball in play they are in general above reproach, but at times, especially after a hard run. they seem disposed...
...addition to this, Professor Hill's old course is to be revived this year under Doctor Royce. This course, in connection with the increased advantages in the way of the study of collection, offered in an advanced elocution elective by Mr. Jones, should do much to remove the reproach, that Harvard students can never speak or think before an audience. For those who wish to make a more extended study of the whole literature of the language, the courses in English literature given by Professor Hill will be extended to full courses. The present system of forensics, at present...
...terms "smattering" and "superficiality" in knowledge, are frequently used with a great deal of effect nowadays; and yet we think that there is much to be said in favor of smattering in knowledge. Reproach can properly attach to the smatterer only when in the arrogance of half-knowledge, he attempts judgments only open to the specialist. Every man to a certain extent must be a smatterer. It may be necessary to lessen the preponderance of time given to the classics in a liberal education. This many are ready to admit. But that the common ground of studies prior...
...employed by the college indirectly, for the benefit of the students, while the other is employed directly by the students themselves, does not make the difference. No, there is professionalism and professionalism, and a distinction must be made so as not to include in one term of reproach all those whose partial or entire vocation is athletics. As a matter of fact it is only in base-ball playing tlrat the tendency has been at all reprehensible, and in many cases in this sport there have been extenuating circumstances...
...have become so accustomed to hearing criticisms on the conduct of the students at our American colleges, that it is somewhat of a relief to learn that our English cousins are not entirely above reproach in that respect. Of course we should no more judge the great body of English students by the few cases of disorder which occur, than we ourselves ought to be condemned because of the misconduct of a few. An editorial in the current number of the "London Graphic," in commenting on undergraduate life at Oxford, says : The Vice-Chancellor of Oxford has had to inflict...