Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...would seem, from the recently printed words of President Robinson of Brown University, that the idea that a man of prime physical development must necessarily be lacking in strength of intellect has not yet been entirely abandoned. We had thought that this fallacy had been long ago exploded, but when a man occupying so prominent a position as does President Robinson, deliberately states it as his conviction that the students who hold positions on the various athletic teams are wont to make their studies secondary to their work in the field, we feel that so sweeping a statement ought...
...Cohn thought that the great difficulty in investigation in the United States was the lack of original sources of all European, and of early American history. These records are all in Europe and contain a great mass of unpublished matter. By consulting these documents, an investigator in the old Counties is sure to be rewarded for his labor by some discovery...
Instead of issuing a supplementary list of topics, it is thought best that anyone who wishes to choose for thesis or final examination a topic not in the pamphlet, should first get the advice of an instructor who has special acquaintance with the topic chosen, and should then bring or mail to the forensic instructor a written recommendation from this adviser, declaring the topic a suitable one for the announced purposes of the forensic work. The forensic instructor may then at his pleasure approve the chosen topic as a substitute for any in the pamphlet...
...have recently been examining some of the bills that I paid during my freshman year. Here is one of them, which I confess I thought rather large, but which I paid, being a freshman and thinking it all right, always having heard a good deal of talk about Cambridge high prices...
...almost wholly given by them. A small sum of $13,000 was raised, which was enough to pay the professors moderately, and to insure the continuance of the experiment for four years. An old house on Appian Way was secured for a lecture and recitation building; but it was thought best not to do anything about a dormitory until it should become legally a part of the college. In the meantime the students have found homes among the families of Cambridge...