Word: thinge
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...calendar is unquestionably second in importance, and here the reader finds that the Christmas recess is from Dec. 23, 1885, to January 2, 1886, inclusive, which necessitates the second term beginning on Monday, Jan. 4. But the most surprising thing of all on these pages, even in the whole book, is this: "May 31, Monday. Memorial Day; a holiday." The italitics are the present writer...
...single sentence, fixed quantity and quality of study, variable topic." The great moral help to students under this new ideal lies in the fact that "it uplifts character as no other training can, and through influence on character, it ennobles all methods of teaching and discipline." The one thing demanded under a free choice of studies is that the student should "will to study something. . . . The will is honored as of prime consequence." Under the influence of a volition, a student works under no disguises, he is forced "to be conscious of what he is doing," to perceive "that gains...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - It seems to me a thing greatly to be lamented that the Grand Stand question is to be given up. Why should Harvard who is so manifestly pre-eminent in track athletics be surpassed by Yale in this respect? Is it possible that we are calmly willing to admit that we have so little appreciation of the never equalled record of last year's nine, of the Mott Haven teams for the last six-years, that, for lack of a little energy to raise the sum of $4.500, we will not support our previous victories...
Barring the fact that the two teams were not at all evenly matched, the only thing that marred the game was the incessant fumbling. As eighty-six had the ball most of the time, they did most of the fumbling, though the eighty-nine men managed to get in their fair share. For eighty-six, the best playing was done by Burnett, Austin, Fisk, and Kimball. Burnett's playing being especially fine. For eighty-nine, the honors were carried off by Scott, Wardman, Perry and Austin. Wardman doing most of the work in the rush line during the first three...
...knows intimately, but the rest of the college are strangers to him. As he generally joins a society early in his freshman year - and sometimes even before he has entered, - mistakes are very numerous, and, once in, there is no withdrawal that is possible. There are cases where every thing is made a society matter. The election of class officers is frequently made by a 'deal' between two or three powerful societies, and the result is therefore a cause of much bad feeling...