Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...impression had gone abroad that foot ball and base base were the principal studies at Princeton, but that was due to the fact that the college was able, with a small number of undergrades, to send out teams which held their own with colleges of more numerous students. He thought there was too much attention paid to athletics by the first term freshmen, as it often caused their failure to pass examination at the end of the term. He favored giving them another examination before the beginning of the second term. In the increasing study of the optional branches, Prof...
...great elective system, broadening, expanding and enlightening the minds and purposes has been brought to a state of perfection which Yale and Princeton must follow, or be worse distanced than now. Religion is no longer forced upon the students, who are left to form their religious convictions with mature thought, and not to imbibe early in life a feeling of hostility and contempt for all religion. Perhaps it is to be deplored that Harvard's proximity to Boston tends to inculcate in young minds the dilletate spirit which pervades the Athens of America. Take it all in all, though, President...
...editions of Aristotle, Pliny, Ptolemy and Albertus Magnus; oracular compends of Isidore, Hrabanus Maurus; the monkish encyclopedias of Vincent de Beauvais, of Bartholomaeus de Granville, of Jacobus Magnus, of Mathias Farinator, the speculations of Pierre d'-Ailly, Nicholas of Cusa and John Pico of Mirandola. This field of thought is still more richly represented among the books of the fifteenth century by the work of Agrippa and Paracelsus and their extravagant compeers. Whatever pertains to the superstition of science seems to have had for Mr. White an especial interest...
...continual sending in of communications in regard to the proposed University Club is a good sign in itself. It shows that, if, as some writers claim, there are defects in Harvard's social institutions, the students have at last thought the matter over with care, and have original thoughts to express whenever the question is agitated. The question is one with many bearings. There is a great deal to be said on both sides, and no sensible conclusion can be arrived at without the fullest discussion. We would like thoughtful opinions from all the different standpoints of college life, from...
...plan of voluntary chapel is working finely; on some mornings nearly twenty chaps will be there, and on others the number will be raised to twenty-five, but these are all freshman, and it is thought that, by Easter, the chapel will be closed to await the arrival of the next freshman class...