Word: respects
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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After about fifteen minutes, when the applause which burst forth spontaneously at this brilliant sally, had somewhat abated, Miss Rosamond Mortimer, the poet, was escorted on to the stage. Her appearance was in every respect romantic. Her profile was of the purest Grecian type, excepting her nose, which, being a little retrousse, added marvellously to the deep sentiment written plainly in her other features. There was a plaintive dulcet tone to her voice that thrilled the heart of every hearer, as completely as - as - as the squeaking of bad chalk does in a recitation-room. Her poem, "On the Beauty...
...Class of '79 ceases its undergraduate existence and enters the ranks of the Alumni. That the class is considerably above the average in almost every respect, is a fact so well known in college that it does not need mention. Both in athletics and in scholarship its record has been an excellent one. Many of its members, too, who have not taken the highest stand in their studies, have shown such ability that they are pretty sure to make their mark in the world. '79 has formed so large a part of the life of the College during the last...
...work on suitable apparatus in the gymnasium; a man who could tell the boating-man, the bicyclist, the base-ball player, what he most needed and what he should avoid; and, with all this, a man who by his character would win the confidence as well as the respect of the students...
...chief objects of the new system of Honours are: to incite students to greater effort for good scholarship, and to reward men who are, it is said, unjustly deprived of reward. The effect in the first respect will be, on the contrary, to diminish the total amount of true scholarship among the students. The value of honours under the new plan will be much less than that of the present ones. The very value of graduating honours at present is that there is a general interest as to who obtains them; there will be much less interest taken...
...should have considered it unworthy of notice had not an editorial in the last Crimson and an article in the last Advocate indorsed this view. These papers ought to, and generally do, represent undergraduate feeling, but on this important question I believe, with all due respect to editorial opinion, that they have seriously misrepresented it, especially the feeling of those most interested; and therefore I cannot let the matter pass without a protest...