Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...facts to be imparted are culled over, if the theories to be expounded are colored, if anything is suppressed or anything is distorted in presenting the result of current scientific thought and investigation, you have a school, not of philosophy, but of sophistry. But it is given to try all things, in calm confidence that the unperverted mind will hold fast to that which is best; if you are Catholic, not in what you teach, but in the spirit and end of your teaching, then indeed you may free humanity from a spectre before which it yet trembles...
...what Battelle did, so much as what he was to his friends and even mere acquaintances that makes his death such a blow to the college - his memory so tender. Battelle's nature was essentially lovable. Unusually kind and sympathetic, invariably courteous and considerate of others, generous in thought and action, keenly sensitive, and serene even in the midst of the suffering which has been his lot for several years, - he was a thorough gentleman. And the memory of Harold Battelle will linger among his classmates until the class itself shall be no longer a memory...
...crew expect to go down to New London next Monday. The launch is in bad shape and unfit to take, but lack of funds prevents the purchase of a new one. Only four of last year's crew are at present in the 'varsity boat, so the thought that all of last year's winning crew are in college can not be depended upon for victory. Bond is rowing at 3 in place of Cummings, but the latter will be given another trial this week. Ninde has been called home on account of sickness and it is doubtful...
...estimate held by college authorities of these courses. They give, however, a fair notion of the tendencies developed; and from 1825, the date of the first report issued, show an uninterrupted progress from the ancient to the modern, and from realms of fact to realms of thought...
...That the style in which the fiction is written should, in the the twenty-sixth anniversary number be dramatically sensational is due partly to the mere accidental make-up of the number, and partly to a general tendency of modern pictorial style which is not unworthy of more extended thought and discussion than can be given in these columns...