Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Still, there is no need of despairing, and our only thought is to brace the freshmen to renewed efforts in the hope that the series will be finished with the favorable balance on their side. But to do this there is need of the hardest work on the part of the freshmen which they have ever done. No stone should be left unturned which can aid them in putting themselves into the field the next time in perfect condition. They cannot deserve the support of the college and a large attendance at their game on Jarvis Field unless they...
...average newly-fledged graduate has only to breast the larger world out-side his college walls to find that there is astonishingly little of all he thought he knew that can at once be turned to practical account. He soon realizes that a degree is to be valued for what it helps him to do, rather than for its prestige...
...Princetonian and many other college papers thought that Harvard, as represented by the Advocate and CRIMSON, had right and the better argument on their side in the recent controversy over the Yale-Harvard, '87, base-ball games...
...supplemented by a college curriculum or manual labor it is the reading of books upon which we must found our cultivation. "Show me his books and I will tell you the man," is so true and invariably reliable that it is strange we do not take greater thought or care about what or how much we read. Some of us are bound to rank and marks, others to nothing, but how few of us have any definite method, beside cramming through a cunningly arranged series of examinations, by which to arrive as a higher intellectual sphere. Of course it only...
...obtained eight inches in all. They then waited for Yale to heave, but the blues failed to make any movement throughout the five minutes to the surprise of all, and so Harvard won by eight inches. The final tug was between Lehigh and Harvard. Those on the grounds thought that Lehigh had shown up better in the preliminary trials, but when the last five minutes pull was over, Harvard had pulled a foot and a half of their adversaries' rope over to their side, and had won the event...