Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...with something in regard to which his prejudice or his passion may be excited. It is for this reason that I wish to offer an apology, if in the following I should seem to speak irreverently of old college articles of faith and of customs springing from them. The subject of the Class elections is turning the mind of some portion of the undergraduates towards Class-Day. And while we are yet far enough off to examine coolly, let us ask ourselves whether we should not be acting in an honester way if we gave up some of the exercises...
...proposition to change the dinner-hour to the latter part of the day will soon be brought before the College for censure or approval; the changes which this plan involves are of great importance, and careful consideration must be given to the subject, that we may not thoughtlessly make a decision that will afterwards be regretted. Arguments for one side of the question have already appeared in the Advocate, and the advantages of late dinners presented at their best. To take up the arguments for the other side, it is to be noticed, first, that although athletic sports are important...
PERHAPS no community of men is less subject to the thoughts which attend a realizing sense of the inevitability and imminence of death than a college community; and this for several reasons. Of these the most important is the age of its members, to which the consideration of death is both repugnant and unnatural. All our pursuits have a direct bearing on our immediate future which they presuppose, and therefore our future as a whole is apt to find no place in our calculations. We are eminently a hopeful community. Success in some one or other of its forms seems...
...interested in its proceedings, was a thing easily undertaken, and on account of the interest that has been lately manifest, it appears to me that now is the time to begin. It is not so evident, however, in which way it is best to commence, and on thinking the subject over, it has occurred to me to suggest a few different ways of doing this, hoping that in the following number, both of your paper and of the Advocate, they will be discussed, so that finally some idea may be obtained of what would be the most feasible plan...
...have received an anonymous article for publication, which its author will not, of course, see in our columns; but which deserves some notice on account of its object. The subject of impure conversation in college is one that to be handled effectively requires both abilities as a writer and a thorough knowledge of those to whom it is addressed. No mere decrying against a lamentable fact can be of any possible use, and threats are worse than idle. Our columns are open to any able pen in the interests of reform, but we must know the hand that holds...