Word: tending
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...number of communications which we have sincereceived, and which must necessarily fail to be printed from lack of space, we are informed that our editorial opinions do not meet the approbation of the gentlemen with whose correspondence we are honored. We are told that the abolition of chapel will tend to diminish the spiritual and material welfare of the college, and that, as a unit, our students are not in favor of the change. Moreover, we are taken to task for handling our correspondent's letter too severally. We are told that our claims to age and experience...
...comes in at 2 A. M. from an expensive spree, and makes the halls echo to "Michael Roy," is unpleasant and not uncommon; the man upstairs who is getting up his muscle, and who dreps thirty pound dumbbells on the floor, is another variety. All tend to perfect repose and rest of mind. The janitor making the fires at 4 A. M., the click of the letter box in the early morning, and the peripatetic student overhead, who studies by the lap, are minor and soothing noises." We thank Snodkins for his courtesy; rise, bid him adieu, and leave...
...college we have heard many persons say, is by no means satisfied at the personnel of the eleven. This remark applies especially to the rush line. Here is the greatest fault of the team. Let new men be tried in some of the places. If these do not tend to improve the team then it will not be the fault of the management if our eleven is defeated; it will be the fault of the college for not furnishing better material...
...will meet with the refusal of the undergraduates. Most of the Law students are voter and attach more political significance to their action than do the undergraduates. A club which is formed for express purpose of electing a Democratic president cannot reasonably be expected to do anything which would tend to defeat their purpose. It is but natural that they should refuse to join a Blaine and Logan procession, they could do nothing else under the circumstances. But it does not seem fair for them to try to swell their numbers from the undergraduates and thus prevent the college from...
...contended that the degree of Ph. D. covers all the radical tendencies of President Eliot's theory and that Harvard in her radicalism is simply leading the way for a speedy deterioration of the degree of A. B. Thus it would appear that while the course of Harvard would tend toward a liberal education, the degree which today characterizes a liberal education must not be allowed longer to continue with it. In other words the liberally educated man should be a doctor of Philosophy...