Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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When the Harvard nine played its first championship game with Amherst, winning it by a score of 13 to 2, its many friends, though anticipating an honorable record, little thought that rival after rival would fall so regularly before the skill of its members. Victory followed victory, however, until at last the pennant has been brought to Cambridge, and will float over Holmes Field for the coming year, a needless reminder to every Harvard man of the glories by which it was won. The nine played its second game in Providence, winning it by a score...
...hope that it will be carried out. There is, to be sure, little time for preparation, but all the college wants is the good old. tunes which need no rehearsing. "Yale men say" would be more acceptable than any piece of the finest technique. If it is thought best to have any celebrations in the yard, be sure that it is conflned within reasonable limits. Remember that a new scheme of student government is now on trial at Harvard, and if there should be an unwonted disturbance the faculty would be justiin returning to the old system of oligarchical government...
...required for this purchase is $20,000. In spite of the hard times, we have thought it worth while to make this statement, being not without hope that among the many friends of education, some might be willing to help us in providing a suitable habitation, where our enterprise, so successfully begun, may find room for its natural growth and expansion...
That the grind should be called a pitable specialist doubtless surprises many. And yet a little thought must show the reader how much the grind should be pitied. All study, and that on only two or three subjects and on only their limited class-room phases, no social intercourse, no general reading, no recreation of any sort for mind or body, are things that are not very likely to make such a fully developed manhood as a college education certainly ought to make. To "grind" is, it is true very laudable, but to grind all the time...
...where study, serious investigation, and every phase of intellectual activity are in the very air, is to have oneself aroused and, if not wholly, yet partially drawn into the whirlpool of mental and intellectual life. No one will deny that all such influences, quickening the mind and inspiring the thought, are beneficial and elevating...