Word: think
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There has recently been a tendency, however for those who have been on the team for one or two or more years to enter some other form of athletics, sometimes thinking that there are others who can readily fill their places, and sometimes, we regret to say, without any regard to the loss they may bring upon the team. No one can deny any of these their right to choose their own line of conduct. Often they enter other branches of athletics when their presence is really needed, sometimes they do not. We wish to treat this in an entirely...
...first obstacle they have to contend with is the revolt of strong minds against a weak religion. Men often find themselves unable, after a few weeks of college life, to believe as they used to; but there is no harm in this. A man should be encouraged to think of Christianity; for it is not worth thinking of, it can be but a poor thing. Again, many think Christianity dull; but this is not true in fact or in theory. Not only is it most interesting in itself, but theoretically its chief end is to cure dullness...
...courses that we take no interest in. The college man has more vacation than any other class, yet he idles away his time in doing fifty things besides his appointed tasks; a slight headache, a dry Professor; any thing to avoid a short hour in the recitation room. Men think they are wronged too if not allowed to go home before a vacation begins, if an examination strikes him hard, or if he is barred from a recitation on account of oversleep...
...head. Whether ladies are present or not the same things happen. If after Vesper services, for instance, a man in a crowd walks into the gallery with his head covered, the disgraceful uproar at once begins. The visitors do not realize the meaning of it; too often they think it is a personal insult and are forced in common decency to retire, doubtless with very uncomplimentary opinions of Harvard courtesy...
...from all active connection with the college, except as a member of the Board of Overseers. For this reason he was probably not personally known to many undergraduates at the time of his death; but in the days of his active life here he would have been grieved to think that he was not in very close touch with a majority of the students...