Word: stronge
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...honor, and they would ask that the same consideration they demand for themselves be given to their fellows. Public opinion is weak at Harvard to-day because it is not allowed to grow. Men are "suspects" the minute they enter the examination room. You cannot make a man morally strong by making him feel that he is watched. Men must be made to know that confidence is placed in their honor. Professor James has tried the plan. At the hour examinations given to his classes this year and last, no proctor was placed in the room. It was then that...
...significant human passion of the day, What I especially lament, then, in the journalism of the day is the too frequent absence of this ideal. Too often the newspaper appeals to the weaklings and to the sick among its readers rather than to the whole men and to the strong. As for the cure, that must come from the ability and manliness of leading journalists themselves. Given the true man, who is also a born editor, and never has lacked, and never will lack subscribers, nor yet influence...
...Amherst men took four first and ten second prizes, a larger total than was made by Dartmouth in getting the championship. Six first prizes made Dartmouth win. Only one of the men Amherst sent to Hartford last spring has left college, and to the number remaining several new and strong candidates have been added. Dr. Hitch-cock, the gymnasium instructor, has contributed $50 towards engaging an instructor for the three or four weeks just previous to the meeting...
Corning is a strong player; is from St. Paul...
Each of whom beams as he their strong point tells...