Word: self
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...introducing improved methods in the practice of the several crafts, for which wider outside studies lend their aid. This, however, is not enough; inventors are the exception. In fact, the ground must be widened, and include, secondly, the life beyond the profession. We are citizens of a self-governed country; members of various smaller societies; heads or members of families. We have, moreover, to carve out recreation and enjoyment as the alternative and the reward of our professional toil. Now, the entire tone and character of this life outside the profession are profoundly dependent on the compass of our early...
...affairs. It cannot be that taste and talent have seriously deteriorated. It is possible indeed that college students have become so much more critical and exacting in their demands in this kind of music that it is difficult for amateur composers any longer to command sufficient spontaneity and self-confidence for the production of lively and "taking" college songs. The most plausible explanation of the change, however, is found in the recent growth and wide-spread popularity of comic opera and similar music of the day. It is suggested that these light and popular melodies are coming to take...
...gave statistics to show that the average length of life of boating men is greater than that of others. The scholarship of athletes is not necessarily poor, as is shown by the example of the '70 nine, which averaged over seventy percent. Moreover athletic training gives a man self-reliance, perseverance and "push." Athletics acts as a safety valve for some who would otherwise waste their energies in less laudable pursuits...
...more interesting and well-attended games will result. And if each nine plays a series of three games with each other nine, one on home grounds, one on their opponents', and one in New York, it is highly probable that base-ball at Yale at least would be made self-supporting. This is the true ground of objecting to games with Dartmouth and Amherst. Without them we can have better and more interesting games, and can obtain them at greatly reduced expense. There is a strong tendency at present to curtail college expenditures for athletics, and this seems a good...
...three leaders disastrously defeated by the others. It is a matter of congratulation for us, I think, to have had the experience of the year past. It will teach Columbia a lesson, not to believe too much in any one of the three self-styled great universities who consider Columbia as a mere nonentity because her students do not happen to bunk together...