Word: tending
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...interest among the students which existed when the base-ball boom was started, seems to be dying out, except among the members of the nines. Never has greater enthusiasm concerning anything been exhibited at Columbia than in regard to base-ball during the past spring, and, as events would tend to show, never has enthusiasm so quickly commenced to pass away. Although the association comprises a large number of members, larger, in fact, than any other, it has already been compelled to go into debt. [Spectator...
...also to be changed. A number of subjects are to be selected from the courses offered by the different departments of the college and selections are to be made from these, so that a man can choose something in which he is interested. This will, of course, tend largely to add to the benefit of the instruction in this department hitherto so weak. Dr. Royce will have charge of the forensics...
...person using it, for to establish one diet for all persons was ridiculous. Beef alone is not superior to meal, beans or other farmaceous food, and the size of the muscles of a man is not indicative of his strength. Farinanceous food tones a man down and will tend to give him more endurance. A man who can strike a blow equal to 400 pounds would be called a strong man, but this strength cannot be kept up for any length of time on animal food, as it comes from the base of the brain, and endurance must be sought...
...very far towards increasing the popularity of that committee among the students. To condemn arbitrarily a student before allowing him a word in his own behalf, is hardly consistent with the recognized principles of justice and fair dealing. The endorsement of this style of procedure by the faculty will tend to increase the bad feeling already existing between the authorities and the students. It is to be hoped, therefore, that the decision in question originated with the committee, and that it will not be approved by the faculty...
This objection may not be a vital one, for in this country it would tend to remedy itself as soon as the number of worthy men of letters had increased up to the required limit. But that might be a long time. Until that time, to be a member of the Academy would not go for much, and just as in the French Academy, many would attain to its honors who are entirely unworthy of them...