Word: thriving
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...while the students were living together in commons, a member of the class of 1797, who was suffering from ill-health, hired an old lady living near by to cook him regularly some hasty pudding, thinking that this diet would be beneficial to him. As he seemed to thrive under this treatment, a number of his classmates tried the same experiment. The result was that the dish grew in popularity and the "Pudding Men," as they were styled, met each evening in the room of one of the members, where plenty of hasty pudding was provided. At first no thoughts...
...successfully carried out before another thing is done. What we need as yet is not so much the university as the student. There is still almost wholly wanting among us that higher ambition in our young men which is necessary in order that a university may live and thrive. We need the ambition that would go beyond the studies required for practical purposes, that would go beyond the bread-and-butter studies. And to produce and foster such an ambition, it seems to me, is not by far so difficult as seems to be generally supposed. Let us imagine that...
...abolition of required mathematics and physics in the Freshman year has had a very depressing effect on the tutoring business; but, notwithstanding this great narrowing of the field, tutoring is a business that thrives to-day, and doubtless it always will thrive...
...health. If the students grow fat it will be assumed that their diet is too rich, and if they grow thin it will be regarded as evidence that they are not sufficiently fed. Whether the real end in view is to ascertain upon how little food a student can thrive, and to confine him to precisely that quantity, is not known, but there is certainly room for suspecting that this is Dr. Hamlin's design...
...Union here help men to form good opinions and how excite an interest in the non-working class? It would do much we think in imitating the example of the Cambridge Union. Here the conditions are much the same as at Harvard, yet the Union thrives there. In the first place it is a regular club and owns a club house. This club house is a roomy brick building; as one enters the hall-way, one's attention is called to the large debating room. This room is a little smaller than Sever 11, but it is handsomely furnished with...