Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...advantages arising from this are several and important. In the first place it will relieve the work hitherto borne by undergraduate managers of the various teams. This work has naturally taken a large part of their time and thought with serious detriment to their college studies. They will, however, be appointed as before, but the responsibility and a large part of the work will be taken from them...
...There is certainly much room for improvements in many directions in the club and if they are carried out the Union will be made much more valuable to undergraduates in general. To men who are contemplating a professional life such as the law or any public career where quick thought, self possession and skillful presentation of arguments are necessary, the practice in the Union during their undergraduate life would be of considerable value. Moreover, the subjects which the Union chooses for debate are often such topics in government and politics that the thought and discussion in them does much...
...does not depend on the character of his speeches at all, only on the number. The result is that the Union is composed largely of men who have no real claim to a speaking ability and that consequently membership in the Union is not and can not be thought very highly of. What every man have, no man wants...
...cannot attend the regular session of the college or who wish to pursue the study of some special subject. It prophesies a still further increase in the number of courses and students for another year, and will in time result in the school demanding as much attention and thought as the regular college term. Chemistry, Geology and Physics seem to have been among the most popular courses. There were several advanced courses here as well as elementary courses. Beside the courses in English, History and modern languages which would naturally be offered, there were several courses hardly to be called...
...Sever 11 last evening Professor Ashley gave a lecture on the study of economic history. He made a plea for an examination of the facts of history as a basis for all economical reasoning He thought that speculation which had only few facts as foundation could not but be mistakeable, and that a wider and deeper knowledge of facts was the one thing needed to set our reasoning aright. Facts are not everything, but they are a great deal, and without them a student has no material with which to do his mental building. It is to the credit...