Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...many institutions which smack more of the high school than the college, to such an extent indeed that the word "university" has fallen in part into ridicule, it cannot be denied that some of the seats of learning on this side of the ocean have as good a right to the title as their compeers across the sea. The progress of university life in all the larger colleges within the past decade has been striking, the broadening of the narrow views on educational affairs, the tendency to treat students like men instead of boys, the founding of new schools...
...been in such urgent need of men. We have lost Rogers, Clarke, Bemis and Easton; and thus far we have looked in vain for men who can fully take their places. Yet I firmly believe that such men, at least that winners enough to bring back the cup, are right here in college. In this connection an extract from the Yale News in four columns of Monday, is extremely significant. It says: "She, (Harvard) has had advantages in point of numbers, and it is only by virtue of our greater enthusiasm and harder work that we have won." Let every...
...candidates for the Princeton 'Varsity nine will go into active training in the gymnasium right after the Christmas recess...
...speed. It is therefore no more than just to the Cambridge people, who could easily put a stop to all running in the streets if they wished, that all the men should run on one street, and leave the others for the Cambridge people who certainly have a fair right to them. North avenue is the best street in Cambridge for running on, having as it does broad, smooth side-walks as far as any one is likely to run. And since this street has been tacitly conceded for the use of students, let all who wish...
...Government has a constitutional right to interfere...