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...size of the classes. Moreover, the subscriptions for the new launch were sufficient also for a part of its running expenses, and finally the kindness of Mr. Lathrop in undertaking the Gymnasium Benefit Exhibition, and the exertions of the Glee Club in our aid at New London, helped to swell our receipts...
...athletic data, records, and so forth, are conveniently arranged, and afford interesting and valuable study for those athletically inclined. This year they afford quite as pleasant and gratifying reading as the Harvard mind can wish for. Even the Cricket Club has victories recorded to its credit, and helps to swell the loud-echoing paeans of Harvard's successes...
...Oberlin with two men, and each of the following list has sent one representative, Princeton, Williams, Cornell, Hamilton, University of Michigan, Wesleyan, Mt. St. Marys, Drake University, National Normal University, Notre Dame, Howard University, and the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College. Several Harvard, '85 men who were expected to swell the size of the class, have either gone to other institutions or have decided to follow other professions, or will come back a year later. Among them might be mentioned Winslow, Nutter, Harrington, J. H. Noble, Dunham, Sanford, Hansen and Bowen...
This kind of specialism, however, suggests another quite different kind which has not been very generally noticed, but which, nevertheless, is very prevalent here at Harvard and elsewhere. Reference is had to the "grind," and the "swell" (or, to be more modern, the "dude"), and the "professional" athlete. All men, who are properly called by any one of these names, and to whom any other can be applied only with a very slight degree of correctness, are specialists; and their specialism has to be attended with great injury to themselves as well as to the general interests of the college...
...face of outside opinion once more," says the writer, "I would not hesitate to affirm that, with the sole exception of the 'swell,' the 'grind' is the least valuable and useful type of college student. While a rational and vigorous attention to study is the prime object of a college course, the man who devotes himself to study exclusively, withdrawing himself from all human interest, is quite as mistaken an extremist as he who neglects his studies altogether. The former's science of navigation may be excellent, but if he does not know the sun when he sees...