Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Seven settles, squirms, and does n't pull his hands in high. The general faults are also numerous. The four bow men lack reach. All have a flat feather, none raise their hands high enough, or shoot away quick. Some of the men evidently don't pull a proportional share...
...doubt, it is unpleasant to lose in a contest, but there is almost as much satisfaction in losing pluckily a well-fought race as in winning it. Besides, the man who perseveres is bound, sooner or later, to come out creditably. Laziness and indifference have also a large share of influence in keeping men from entering. The former, at best, is unmanly, while as to the latter no one has a right to be indifferent to seeing his college take a second or third-rate position in athletic sports, if he can aid at all, and every...
...think that all of these causes may have some share in determining the present state of things; but it seems to me that much mutual good might be accomplished if there were a change in this matter. A student who sees that a professor takes no interest in him naturally comes to regard the professor as an evil that must be endured at recitations, and may then be shunned. It is not for him to take the initiative, and he makes no advances...
...decidedly queer. I can hardly believe, either, that a subscription of even $20,000 by the present Senior Class would have the effect of lowering room-rents. At any rate, I have not faith enough that this would be the result to be willing to contribute my share of the sum needed to make the experiment...