Word: take
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...RECEPTION game will probably be played with the Bostons by the Harvard Nine on the return of the former from their tour next week. The game will take place on the Boston Grounds, and we hear that Mr. Bush of '71 will play once more under his old colors...
...counts in the indictment of Charles Francis Adams vs. Harvard College, as the readers of his oration will remember, are, in brief, these: that our course of instruction is utterly deficient in two branches, both of the utmost importance in fitting young men to take part in public affairs, - said branches being, 1, the art of composition; 2, oratory. In the course of his argument in favor of these departments of instruction, our complainant exhibits in strong light the high estimation which he puts upon them in contrast to the indifference with which they are regarded by "the powers that...
...order to begin a reformation somewhere? And if anywhere, it must be within the College course. The preparatory schools have as yet done little or nothing toward making writers or speakers of those they send out. It belongs, then, to the older institutions to take the lead, bearing in mind that while college graduates are not expected to become demagogues or inordinate office-seekers, they are expected to use their superior education for the greatest good of their fellow-citizens. Whether as editors, authors, or public speakers, the public has a right to demand that they use both tongue...
STUDENTS in economic science must have watched the Grange movement in the West this summer with much curiosity. Whether any valuable principle will be satisfactorily tested, or whether the farmers, blind from ignorance, will take the outstretched hand of politicians, and, after trying some unsound, plausible scheme, eventually sink back into their old state of comparative inferiority, are yet open questions. But it seems as if this country was about to learn by experience, what Scandinavia has long practised, that agriculturists can co-operate, as advantageously as other producers, both in selling their products and in buying implements and vital...
...Harvard way of accepting defeat seems to us much better than ours, as exhibited in the controversy of '70, and we may well take the lesson thus taught us to heart, to be acted upon in the future." - Yale Courant...