Word: tends
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...were trained in the school of severe definitions and sharp conceptions and steady and clear-eyed good sense. The extravagant oratory, the sensational declamation, the encumbered poetry, the transcendental philosophy, the romantic fiction, the agnostic atheism, the pessimistic dilettanteism, to which modern speculation, and modern science and modern poetry tend, need now and then a "season of calm weather," such as a dialogue of Plato, an oration of Demosthenes, a tragedy of Sophocles, or a book of Homer, or at least a letter of Cicero, an ode of Horace, or a book of Virgil to quiet the fevered spirit...
...remarkably large number, when we consider that professional base-ball playing has practically been in existence only about fifteen years and that there are only ten or fifteen colleges that have good nines, and when we remember that all the instincts and surroundings of a college man would tend to dissuade him from becoming a professional athlete." As an interesting commentary on the above in showing what influences are sometimes brought to bear on college students we print the following telegraphic item: "Prof. Edward Hitchcock, Jr., of Amherst College, has been appointed by the trustees of Cornell University professor...
...formed, will be composed of the four regular substitutes for the university boat, and will very probable compete in the Lake George regatta. Now these crews are all to be maintained besides the regular class crews, and it is easily seen that such a condition of affairs will tend to a tremendous boom in rowing, which can not fail to make a marked improvement in the quality of Yale's work at the oar. It seems to us that it would be well for our rowing men to emulate them, and to start a corresponding boom...
Then the feeling that from this eight, four would be selected to represent the University at Lake George would tend to increase the zeal and interest of the men. We believe that if the Boat Club authorities should decide upon such action, the college at large would show renewed interest in rowing and that increased subscriptions would flow in to cover the necessarily increased expenses of the club. Of course there may be objections to such a scheme, but if Yale can carry on such a system, it would seem strange that it could not flourish here, where we have...
...subject from the fact that he unfortunately knew too much about it. It is much easier to lecture upon a topic on which one is not fully conversant than upon one with which great personal familiarity leads him to continually suggest a variety of incidents and illustrations which tend to drift away from the main subject. The House of Commous in England is the center of political life, in it, is vested by far the larger share of the power of the government, and as it is republican in its character and representative of the people, it is of course...