Word: topic
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...This topic suggests further interesting and vital questions, of which we can mention only a few. What exercise can be recommended to the hard student? He has, perhaps, no knack for games; the weights and bars are to him as cheerful as a treadmill; he can not afford a horse, even if he knew how to ride. To him a walk is about all there is left. It is cruelty to compel him to do work which he loathes, and he is likely to get little encouragement to learn games that he does not know. On the other hand there...
...munificent gift of Mr. J. G. Clark to the City of Worcester for a new institution of learning, to be called Clark University, is well known throughout the country, and has ceased to be a prominent topic of conversation. The proposal to endow a university with land, books, etc., to the amount of nearly $2,000,000 was made about a year ago to the City of Worcester. The gift having been accepted by the city, it was an easy matter to obtain a charter from the legislature. A brief delay was experienced by the formation of the corporation...
...prevailing topic of discussion here just at present in the line of athletics is naturally the chances of the foot-ball team in the coming contest with Harvard and Princeton. The newspaper reports on the prospects of the eleven have in general reflected the sentiments of the college in regard to this question. There can be no possible doubt in the mind of anyone who has been a constant spectator at the practice games that with the material at hand only the most diligent work on the part of every member of the team will enable Yale to make...
...absorbing topic among the students at present is Princeton's chance for the championship in the foot-ball series this fall. Capt. Cook's failure to return to college this year has done much to dampen the enthusiasm of those who were most confident in our chances for the pennant. With all of last year's eleven but Savage, who captained the team and played full-back, it seemed more than probable that the disputed championship of last year would be decided in favor of Princeton. Cook and Moore, however, failed to return, and in them the team lose...
...depending solely upon the merits of his work, it is therefore to the interest of the paper and to that of its readers, that a large number of applicants should present their work so that the best talent may be secured. Communications and an occasional editorial written on a topic of live interest and front page articles on athletics or other subjects of interest, will be ample tests of a man's abilities. The freedom and openness of the competition, far from deterring men from writing ought to spur them on to do their best work. The magaging editor...