Word: soled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rapid strides which have been taken at Harvard of late years towards the complete and perfect study of Greek and Roman antiquities. Leaving out of account the curriculum of classical studies common to our colleges in general in a more or less eminent degree, we assume for Harvard the sole enjoyment in America of a chair for the study of classical philology in its strictest sense and as it is followed in the German universities. Such a course was not calculated to reveal any extraordinary or immediate developments, but it is hoped that it will in time replace the stay...
...prospects. What our foot-ball prospects are I really cannot say. We have had prospects ever since our foot-ball commenced, and if they are the same this year as they have been in years past, I would suggest that we hold two or three fall regattas, for the sole purpose of interfering with them...
...Cook have been thrown to the wind, and in their place we have the "Hillsdale" stroke. Swing there is none, and all that is aimed at is a fast stroke. The men vary but little from the perpendicular either at the beginning or end of the stroke, and the sole means of propulsion employed are the legs and arms. The former to push the slide back and the latter to finish the stroke by pulling the oar home. There is a very general aptitude throughout the boat, however, to resort too soon to the use of the arms...
...rules governing the instructors of the university is that no examination shall extend beyond three hours. The corporation wisely foresaw that, if no such restriction were enacted, students would be constantly treated with the utmost inconsideration by some professors whose sole aim in examinations is not to discover what the student may know, but to impress on him how absolutely little knowledge of the subject he possesses. The more he succeeds in convincing the student that he is groping in absolute ignorance, the more satisfaction does he seem to take unto himself. This rule the authorities have enacted...
...nurses of discontent. The better class of such papers certainly studiously endeavor to abstain from all complaining that is not likely to lead to anything better than mere fault-finding. Can it not fairly be said that the greater proportion of their criticisms on local matters have for their sole object to secure reform and to raise the status of Alma Mater? Yet their aims are, more often than not, misconceived everywhere outside of the student world. That they foster a closer college spirit and a wider university spirit there can be no doubt, and that their practical usefulness might...