Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...after-thought allow me to call to their minds the real intention and aim of class races, i. e., to prepare men for the 'varsity. It is fair to suppose that most of these Law School oars have either had their share of the 'varsity or never will have it. Therefore, on this ground their action is useless...
...many organizations already formed at Harvard, a rifle club has been organized. Students throughout the country are beginning to take a hearty interest in rifle shooting. At the University of California such a club has proved a success. We are surprised that a limited association has not been heretofore thought of at our own college...
...following editorial appears in the New York Times: "The remarks of President Eliot of Harvard, in his annual report, on inter-collegiate athletic contests have caused a good deal of comment. One journal in this city sagely says that probably no Harvard student ever thought seriously of becoming a professional baseball player or oarsmen. That may be true to a certain extent, but some Harvard men, nevertheless, have accepted money for their services as ball-players or boating men. Tyng, the famous catcher of Harvard, several years ago played a number of games with the Bostons, and Mr. Bancroft...
...teacher. In conclusion, he gave some interesting statistics about the College. His own ambition for Yale was, that the scientists should not crowd out the classics, nor the classics crowd out the scientists, but that young men attending the college should be given a free choice of courses. He thought that in the last ten years the moral improvement of the students had been great. Twenty-five years ago the average Yale student was a longhaired individual, wrapped in a blanket-shawl. Today he looked like a gentlemen, whether he acted like one or not. This change, he believed...
...comes next to Browning, closely followed by Mr. Freeman, 241. Mr. Herbert Spencer is eight with 235 votes, Cardinal Newman, (for his "Apologia) is ninth with 192 votes, John Morley has (187, William Morris, 147; Professor Huxley, 115; and Mr. W. E. Gladstone, 107. Novel writing is thought to appeal greatly to the popular taste but the novelists are at a discount, none of them getting a tenth of Mr. Tennyson's votes, Black, Shorthouse, and Blackmore being the most favored in that way. Among the poets Swinburn, 262, comes next to Browning. The forty ends with the names...