Word: rests
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...conflict. History 8, now in group VII., was formerly in group IX. This course - History 8 - now conflicts with Greek VIII., which two courses I had arranged to take in my junior year. The present arrangement will compel me to change my entire plan of study for the rest of my college course. It seems particularly unnecessary, as the same instructor has another history course (History 6) at the time History 8 is given this year. It would be very easy for him simply to interchange these two courses and replace History 8 in its old group...
...rest of the events were walk-overs...
...object at the outset. We said that we should endeavor to furnish pieces of a light and entertaining nature. They persist in looking for 'funny' articles - 'side-splitters' is their other euphonious name for it." The News adds that it is content to let the matter rest where it is, "for to our taste - depraved probably - light sketches are as satisfactory pabulum as warmed-over witty stories; in general literature to us Hawthorne is as entertaining as Josh Billings." The self-complacency with which the News compares its sketches to the works of Hawthorne is something grand and awe-inspiring...
...strange how little attention is paid by Harvard men to some of the sports which figure on the list at the inter-collegiate games. For instance, the shot and hammer are suffered to rest, while dozens of men run on the track. One or two contestants in these sports revel in a sort of solitary training, and are sure of success from a total absence of competitors. If some of the heavy men would so far sacrifice themselves as to try a few feats daily, or to throw the hammer every afternoon, they would probably discover that this sport...
Professor Comfort, of Syracuse University, in a lecture said that Princeton College allowed more disgraceful conduct in the class room than any other college in this country. The professor said this after having been an instructor there for a short time, and added that Dr. McCosh and the rest of the faculty remained there only at the sacrifice of their manhood...