Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There are a great many candidates for the fielders' positions. Linn, '90, will probably play right field again this year, and Boyden and one of the change pitchers will fill the other two places. Foster, our phenomenal left fielder, will be sadly missed. Codman, '90, who played left on his class nine, is a candidate for the place, but his chances are doubtful...
...English schools and universities are notoriously devoted to the classics to the neglect often of even more fundamental knowledge than modern languages-of chemistry and the natural sciences. This agitation is in the right direction and the English mind is a too conservative one to allow the change to become too radical...
...admit this assertion in full, we are perfectly willing to allow our correspondent a much larger share of knowledge of these matters than we possess. But he goes further and censures us for demanding an itemized account of such a figure as $693.48 for wages. We reserve the right to ourselves, and we think every man in the university may claim as much, to have an explanation for the sums disbursed for the crew. In this particular in stance, the explanation given shows that the janitor of the boat house is paid $60 a month for twelve months...
...attempt to satisfy the intellectual appetite. Still even this motive cannot be wholly approved, since it is selfish and tends to destroy the balance and evenness of physical development. There is yet another motive-to extend the boundaries of knowledge by the truth-seeker, but this cannot be the right aim since the object truth is unattainable and it is not right for us to try to find what we cannot reach. Truth is unattainable because what we do know as certain compared to what we do not know is insignificant...
...Longfellow then introduced Prof. Thayer, of the law school, who spoke on the Dawes bill. This bill gives the Indian the right to hold land and also the right of citizenship. The president is authorized to have the reservation surveyed and a part allotted to each member of the tribe. The Indian may be compelled to accept the land and cannot part with it for twenty-five years. The remaining land is bought by the government and sold to out-siders and money is placed in the U. S. treasury to pay for the education of the tribe. The other...