Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...contemporary will find that in the year 1883-84, the most popular courses in our college were not by any means the "snaps" or easy courses that appear in our elective pamphlet, but that, on the contrary, the hardest courses, those requiring the greatest research, and the most original thought, the courses in History, Philosophy, Political Economy, the languages and the sciences were elected by a very large number of students. The best system in any department of work can be abused, but the abuses of the elective system at Harvard are the exception, and not the rule. These eyils...
...rustication is not preceded by a warning or a summons. U. 5 would have no terrors for a Russian. On the whole, their student life is as far behind the German as the latter is behind the English or American. The universities, however, exert a powerful influence on national thought and life...
President Porter in his recent lecture on law as a profession, spoke of the studies which a man should excel in who studies for that profession, and also of the power of rapid thought and coolness, which are necessary for the study and practice of law, being two different things. In such a country as our own this profession offers great advantages to one who has political aspirations. Almost every one who wishes to engage in a political career thinks it necessary to enter it by means of the law. The financial and social inducements are also strong, not that...
...great) of intemperance; (2), he should aim at simplicity of habits, striking the key of his life moderately; (3), he should aim at health of body, which is liable to injury from drink, for any temporary stimulus is always followed by a strong reaction; (4), he should have thought for his influence on others, inasmuch as often a mere word has an unspeakable influence, and example is a powerful element in life...
Commenting on the styles of rowing shown by the Oxford and Cambridge crews in their recent annual races on the Thames river, London, the London Sportsman says: "The Cantabs this year seemed to have dropped back into that light and ineffective style which many people thought they had abandoned. We have previously pointed out that the light dipping stroke will never succeed against the long and powerful pull which is in favor among the oarsmen on the Isis. The men were well trained, though, perhaps, one or two were, to adopt a technical term, "drawn" a little fine. They, however...