Word: result
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...These diversities are the resultants of many conditions. The difference in locality from which the students are drawn is, perhaps, the most tangible of these conditions, and is probably a considerable factor in the result. But many conditions too subtile to be dealt with by ordinary statistics, can find fitting expression in the composite photograph. This shows at a glance much that the statician's tables could never give, and tells many things which could never find expression in words. The influences of parentage, of home training, of the "atmosphere" of the college in which three or four years have...
...matter is to be taken in hand, the present sophomore class is the one to do it, and not the upper classmen. The experiment might result most disastrously, but an attempt on the other hand might effect changes both unexpected and beneficial...
...seems to me that this is by no means one of the least reasons of Yale's success in foot-ball. The men become thoroughly accustomed to their positions, learn to work well together, and know just how much confidence to place in each other. The result is that playing becomes a kind of second nature to them; they are necessarily quicker in their movement, and more on the alert to pounce right down on their prey without stopping to think about...
...board, regulates the quality, and takes all comers till the "table" is full. In numbers, the clubs very from six to forty-five. Under the Amherst plan very little can be done in the way of choosing table mates. One finds his mates selected for him as the result of chance and gradations in the price of board, yet it often happens that one's associations at table are both pleasant and profitable...
...made to work for honors, and wild fellows made to be-have. Society spirit causes just enough rivalry to that extravagant estimate of classmates and class interests, which is produced by class spirit; while this on the other hand prevents the clannishness and narrowness peculiar to society life. The result is a spirit which causes men to take a many, healthy view of college mates and college life, and in general to estimate men and things at their true value...