Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...would call attention to the discussion of our boat-club system to be found in another column. It must be evident to all who have given attention to the subject, that some radical change is necessary in order to place boating within the reach of the majority of the students. We think that the plan proposed would, if put into execution, popularize boating, and at the same time greatly aid the University Crew. If any one has a better plan, now is the time to make it known, so that no time may be lost in making the changes...
...looking over the various subjects in which special honors are given at graduation, one would think that every field was thoroughly covered, every want met. But perhaps a little careful consideration of the subject will serve to dispel this illusion, if such...
...open question whether the restricted course necessary for the aspirant to honors, though undoubtedly exerting a stimulating and concentrating influence on the mind, may not, by the very narrowness of the curriculum and the continual contemplation of merely one subject or set of subjects, defeat the object of honors by warping, more than disciplining and cultivating, the mind. Undoubtedly the age and antecedents of the student determine the advisability of such a course. All that can safely be said is that, for a man of little general reading, little knowledge beyond the text-books of the first two years...
...retain him, it is unnecessary here to speak, as the dailies have told the whole story time and time again. Whether Mr. Winsor was to be preferred to another great scholar and brilliant writer, for some time past closely connected with the Library, whatever our views on the subject, we will not attempt to discuss...
...where he remained for three years. His degree was given him in '68. Returning from Europe, he settled in Boston; was elected Trustee of the Boston Library, and was called upon to make out the Annual Report. This he did with such exhaustive thoroughness and evident familiarity with his subject, that on the death of Mr. Jewett, the then Librarian, the position which he has held till lately was offered...