Word: rut
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Unless some immediate action is taken to arrange more games, there is lite like lihood of the class base-ball championship being settled at all this year. The management of the class-games has been extremely bad, and affairs have now fallen into such a rut that it will be a difficult task to straighten them out again. Games which should have been played or forfeited were postponed with impunity either by the consent of both of the captains or on account of petty wrangles about the umpire. The captains of class teams who were appointed to umpire...
...plan which the club has in giving these entertainments, to bring the subject of elocution before the college at large, is an excellent one. The study of elocution is one which is too much neglected here, and which languishes rather from the students' tendency to keep in the regular rut to which they are accustomed, than from any fault of the study itself. Those who do take up elocution generally become enthusiastic over it, but their number is too small to make an impression upon the great mass of the indifferent. The plan proposed by the founders of the Shakespeare...
...society as well as to make the most of himself. Such an education must be to a degree a suggestive one; it must teach a man how to think even more than what to think, and must from its very nature abandon the old rut of thought. The favor with which the "new subjects" are received shows plainly how undergraduate feeling is disposed toward them. Men at college fully realize the nature of the times into which they have been thrown and when allowed to shape their own courses, naturally follow out this new line of education. Cast-iron rules...
...correct this fault at the outset. Some special courses of reading as fiction or biography, followed out during a whole lerm or year, will probably give the best results, but few of us possess such a methodical turn of mind that we care to keep in the same rut very long at a time. Still whether one reads with some special end in view or does an indiscriminate skirmishing among the different departments, the principal thing is to read. In most cases some particular field will probably draw attention and make a merely general reading impossible. Above all read steadily...