Word: thought
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...advanced the scientific school steadily lost in number of students and hence in influence. The last remaining reason for entering the school was removed when the college course was made elective and the requirement of Greek at entrance abolished. This decrease in attendance at the Lawrence school has been thought by some to mean a discouragement of science teaching at Cambridge, - but the reverse is the case. In view of these altered relations, President Eliot, in his report, recommends its discontinuance as a separate organization, and that the college faculty be interested with the power of recommending students...
...more day of trial and then the whole college will breath a sigh of relief at the thought that the examinations have vanished from the face of the earth. For a space of four months gradually the thought of blue-books and of misery will fade from men's minds and leave them fresh to encounter the Finals...
...which should beat the most games." "The colleges which have proved true to their agreements" (in this matter,) said the Hamilton Campus, "are Harvard, Dartmouth and Hamilton. The prospect of an exciting and satisfactory contest being thus defeated by the withdrawal of Yale, Princeton and Williams, it has been thought best to indefinitely postpone the tournament." In fact, it did not succeed until some years later...
...place in the college elective lists, the Lawrence scientific school, once a leader among its fellows, has been steadily losing in number of scholars, and hence in influence. For some years past it has suffered seriously, simply from being overshadowed by the growing college across the street. Some have thought that this meant a discouragement to science-teaching at Cambridge, but the very reverse is the case. When the school was founded, the college was narrow, and saw no propriety in allowing a wide variety of study to its undergraduates. There was no advanced teaching in physical or natural science...
...intervening period have disappeared most mysteriously. In those days "scarcely a sound but flutes was heard. From these the gentle murmurings or liquid trills rose from every side of the quadrangle the moment the bell at twelve rang the close of the morning study hours." The violin was not thought much of, and for the term of four years two violins and a violoncello were the only stringed instruments in the club, or in the college at large. French horns, and bass-horns called "semi-brass monsters" were occasional innovations, but we learn that on more than one occasion these...