Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...avails herself of her opportunities. She listens to the same lectures as the men, recites in the same classes and passes the same examinations, usually with more satisfactory results. The young women are said to excel especially in languages and studies not requiring great breadth or depth of thought, while the men surpass them in heavier work involving original methods. As a rule the young ladies who are willing to spend what are usually considered the most interesting four years of life, at college, have too earnest a purpose in view to be easily turned aside from its accomplishment. Having...
YALE.The Yale nine is thought to be weaker than last year, as it has lost the services of Hopkins, Badger, Platt, Smith and Wilcox. Jones will pitch again and will be supported by Hubbard behind the bat. The change pitcher will be Booth, who pitched in the freshman nine year before last and who was thought at that time to be a phenomenon. Souther, '84, will be change catcher. Hopkins' placeat first will be taken by Childs, '83, while Camp goes from short to second, leaving his old place to Griggs, '83, an excellent short-stop and a heavy batter...
...this fear is well founded, it is thought, before many years have passed, "the college will be superseded by all institution which will be in closer sympathy with the scientific tendencies of modern life," for the public have come to the opinion that it is certainly a narrow policy "to devote time to drilling men in the writing of Greek verse, while leaving them in ignorance of the anatomy and physiology of their own bodies...
...Jasper Club of Manhattan College, is one of the strongest college clubs," says the N. Y. Times, "and will play a number of match games this season. This club sometime ago was refused admission into the college association, but it is thought that it is equally as strong as any of the members of that association, as it gave evidence by playing a very close game with the Metropolitan Club last week...
There is a strange bit of pathos in the thought of this self-exiled wanderer giving half of all he had that the youth of a strange land might be taught. He was the first in this country who gave liberally to further general education, an act the importance of which is now inestimable...