Word: things
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...thing where Freshmen have usually been deficient we hope to see an improvement, and that is in making themselves felt through the college press. And this applies to the class as a whole, and not to those few who in their own or partial friends' opinion have literary ability. On such as have, perhaps, never entertained the thought of their ability to write, we would enjoin the advisability of trying; for the main requisite is to have something to say, and surely among so large a number it cannot be but there are ideas and information for which the college...
...came. We attempt no eulogy of his character; all who remember the active part - and the pail of chemicals - he bore in the conflagrations which have illumined our recent skies, will need no further reminder of that sleepless being whom we have been used to seeing the last thing at night and the first in the morning...
...that most interesting department of the law. It was with much reluctance that they finally took this step, for the study was so entirely satisfactory that the affection which even on such short trial had been formed for it was not easily overcome. But, after all, it was a thing of a useless kind; well enough, perhaps, for those with a fondness for it, but certainly not worth a serious consideration from a body of men having, like our respected Faculty, so much weightier business to conduct. In a course which could by any possibility prove beneficial to those pursuing...
...efforts and regulations of the Faculty, - persevering and severe as they have been, - but by the change in the opinions of the students themselves, who, as the age of the entering classes has increased, and influenced, perhaps, by the humanizing spirit of the times, if there is such a thing, have come to look at the subject in the light in which it has long been regarded by the graduates of the College. Last year, by a skilful opposing of one college tradition to another on the part of the Faculty, the classes of '75 and '76 were...
...lies elsewhere; it is in the fact that few who come here have received the slightest preparation for the life before them. It would be thought unfair to blindfold a child and expect him to perform creditably upon the tight-rope. But the parent and teacher do the same thing all the time, and are greatly chagrined at the result. You wish to give the charge intrusted you a Christian character? By all means; there is abundant room for such. But do not persuade yourselves that it can be made strong enough to endure the battle of life, by training...