Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Captain Armstrong of the Yale crew today telegraphed for "Bob" Cook. who has just returned to Philadelphia from a trip to Europe. Word was received from Mr. Cook's partner that the veteran coach would be in New Haven as soon as possible after adjusting his business. It is thought that Mr. Cook will be in the city tomorrow for the annual spring regatta...
...Advocate dwells upon the importance of Harvard students' making some more general recognition of intellectual attainment among their fellows. The point is very well raised. At present, in the onward sweep of athletics, the undergraduate has been deceived into thinking, or rather into acting as if he thought, that the athlete alone is deserving of the popularity which puts a man's name in every body's mouth. It is proper that the athlete should enjoy a certain measure of collegiate fame, but it is far from proper that he should hold so nearly a monopoly...
...discussion on intermigration of students during the graduate course took place. Professor Lanberton of the University of Pennsylvania thought the course should be from beginning to end at the same institution. Several of the students expressed contrary views...
...simple draft upon his sense of courtesy to ask them politely to withdraw, but to drive them out by acts and words far from gentlemanly is a strange proceeding in Harvard halls. Let him remember that it was once said of Emerson, "He stood up, just as if he thought other people were as good...
...spoke to men; as the unpractical person intensely interested in practical affairs, and delighting in "people who can do things," and as the good neighbor, caring for his friends and fellow citizens, and standing up - in the words of an old woman of the village - "just as if he thought other people were as good...