Word: think
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...unexpectedly large audience listened to Professor Marsh's lecture last evening on "The Classics in the Revival of Learning." The decline in learning said Professor Marsh, began as early as the third century, owing to the spiritual and intellectual depression. Nobody dared think or act independently. In the fifth century came the invasions of the barbarians into Italy, destroying almost all traces of classical learning. But about this time came the beginning of a revival, that was to culminate in the Renaissance. In these mediaeval days education was limited chiefly to grammar and rhetoric. For illustration, in these branches...
...scale. Consequently we have had for some years the unsatisfactory custom of only two freshmen games with Yale, whether the series has resulted in a tie or not. This is likely to be taken as a precedent to justify the refusal of the freshman manager's request, but we think it would hardly be a just one. The games with Princeton are not a permanent arrangement; they are simply a temporary means of keeping up an interest in freshman baseball in both colleges, until Yale has passed from under the ban placed upon her by her faculty...
...international boat race of the kind proposed should be distinctly the result of a graduate and undergraduate movement, and not of the offer of the editor of an enterprising newspaper, whose motives are so likely to be interpreted in but one way. Should his plan be adopted we think the college would suffer in public estimation, whether with justice...
...least, if she chooses to insist, it is strange that she should seem content to let things stand as they are. Her reasons are not tenable; at least they apply to her no more strongly than to us. They are not true to her previous conditions and this, we think, is conclusively shown in Harvard's last letter...
...back, it seems but a very short time since the street and sidewalks in front of Leavitt and Peirce's were be set by a mob of students who had gathered to wish success to the departing eleven. Moments like those take strong hold in our memories; we shall think of them afterwards as among the most in spiring incidents in our college course. Their meaning is deep; the labor of months of preparation has come to the point where it must stand the crucial test of the great struggle for supremacy over a strong but friendly rival...