Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...more as the intercourse between student and instructor becomes more and more natural." The main policy of all her instruction is "to teach men to go, instead of being led." This is the key-note of her whole system - to give the power of self-directed and watchful thought; - the trained habit of mind which enables a man to think continuously and accurately. This is what "Harvard's degree will mean." The system of second-year and final honors is directed to this end, requiring independent and self-directed work. Besides these provisions to secure concentrated and coordinated work...
...Elliot, Henry P. Kidder, Alexander McKenzie, John T. Morse, Jr., Francis G. Peabody, John T. Sargent, Edwin P. Seaver, Moorefield Storey, Morrill Wyman-11. The final decision of the question rests with the corporation. "Of the seven persons who form the corporation," says the Advertiser, "only two are thought to favor the medical education of women at Harvard." Co-education of any sort with us must now undoubtedly be but a dream for the dim future...
...Americans to adopt the Rugby rules, but the Americans, speaking from practical experience, disagreed with him. Mr. Moeran admitted that the American rule of not tackling a man below the waist was an excellent one, but he did not like to see the ball kicked backward. The Americans thought the latter move was a good part of the game. Mr. Manning spoke of a proposed rule that had found favor to oblige the half-backs who received the ball to stand at a certain distance so as to prevent block games. The British committee concurred in this. - [New York Times...
...reflects upon himself gravely. The other offence is new and still rankles. Apropos of Mr. Henry Norman's "Account of the Harvard Greek Play," the aforesaid reviewer is amused at the importance of the occasion to the Massachusetts University, in that "the performance of the Antigone (sic!) should be thought worthy of being recorded in a neatly gotten-up and handsomely illustrated volume." "The performance of the Antigone?" Shades of boobies and dullards! Has our friend opened the book, or has he merely balanced it in his capacious hand and said, "The book is well worth the public reading?" Pray...
...crews of Oxford and Cambridge universities brings before us a subject that has been for a long time under discussion by many of the most prominent boating-men and physicians of the world, namely, the four-mile course in boat-races. All physicians, who have given the subject any thought or attention, unanimously agree that a race of four miles is but a needless test of a man's endurance, and that no man can row that distance, spurred on by ambition and excitement and straining every muscle at each stroke, without some serious injury, which is sure to make...