Word: think
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...years 35.4. Second, Harvard was victor in '82, '83 and '85. Our average stroke each year was 36 1-2, 36.6, 36.9, or for the 3 years 36.7. Yale's was 45. 25, 45, 1, 38.5, or for the 3 years 42.95. I think these figures need study...
...first annual report of the graduate treasurer for athletics is enough in itself to show conclusively that the plan of having an older head to control our athletic expenses is a good one. When we think of the bad management in some of the past years, we wonder that the position of graduate treasuer was not established long before. Now that it has been put on a sure footing, we need have no longer the slightest fear of utterly reckless and extravagant managing by undergraduates...
Then, too, the United States government has not always observed the various clauses of its treaties. The promises of the government to give comfortable houses to the Indians have not been observed in one case out of five. When we think of these things, and remember that the Sioux are a people who in years gone by were wont to roam from Kansas to Canada, and from the Mississippi to the Rocky Mountains, can we wonder at their restlessness? By the recent action of Congress in depriving this tribe of half their land, 11,000,000 acres, this restlessness...
...give "A's" because they consider their "B's" just as high as the "A's" which other instructors give-to these men, we say, such instructors are unjust. We recognize plainly enough the difficulty of making a set and equal standard in all the courses, but we think that those instructors who publicly announce that their standards are different from the majority, should make an effort towards a system more nearly like the average...
...many men, such differnces of standard signify nothing; but when insturctors, by such methods, calmly decide the fate of the scholarship men, they have a heavier responsibility on their shoulders than they think. The natural result of this evil is to drive men from the courses in which the instuctors announce they will not give the highest marks. Such an effect tends toward the destruction of the benefits of the whole elective system...