Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...third division because I was a new student. Their rule is to start a new man down low, and let him work up. We have physics, chemistry, Chaucer, and beginning German; French is my optional. . . . There are five things in which a man must excel here to be highly thought of: Boating, foot-ball, baseball, literary ability, or scholarship. A man that don't count in any one of these is no good, unless he is a thoroughly 'good fellow.' Many of the differences between the students of Eastern and Western Colleges are due to the fact of the former...
HANOVER, N. H., Nov. 4, 1882. The friends of Dartmouth watched with considerable interest the incoming of the present freshman class. It was thought by many that the way in which the college troubles of last year were magnified and exaggerated by certain reckless newspaper correspondents, would be the means of decreasing the number of applicants for admission this fall. This would doubtless have been the case had it not been for the foresight of the trustees and faculty. A new course of study was prepared for candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts, made up of prescribed electives...
...interfere with this meeting, and accordingly proceeded to the meeting armed with tin horns and various other noisy instruments and disturbed the peace of the deliberating professors and freshmen with an incessant hulla-ballo. The professors sallied forth and captured a few of the serenaders. The offense was thought a sufficient cause for suspension, and two of the unfortunate upper classmen were invited to take a vacation. Their fellows thought this unfair, and appealed to the faculty, saying that they were also engaged in the disturbance. The faculty stood by their decision, and refused to reinstate the suspended students...
...connection with one other, came into his possession, and concludes with the words : "It occurred to me therefore that there might not be a copy at Harvard; and as the copy which I have is ultimately destined to find its way to the library of old Cambridge University, I thought I should like the sister copy to go to the Cambridge across the water, which is often in our thoughts here, and with which I have been glad to feel myself in more living connection through my friend the Rev. Dr. Hale, who has kindly consented to be the bearer...
...Critic, in speaking in a recent issue of freedom of thought, says: "At the present time, the younger professors in all our great colleges are, with few exceptions, evolutionists; but how many of them are there who dare profess themselves such? At Harvard, we believe, no restrictions exist, and a man does not endanger his position by declaring his acceptance of the Darwinian theory. At Cornell, too, there are several avowed evolutionists who are in no real danger of being discharged. But when we except these two, we know of no institutions where a similar freedom of opinion would...