Word: towardness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...view. The club has been very conscientious in practising of late, and we have no doubt that all who go will be amply repaid. The purpose for which the proceeds of the concert are to be used is surely very worthy, and every freshman ought to contribute his share toward increasing them. We hope the freshmen will receive the encouragement which they certainly deserve, from the whole college, and regret that the sale of tickets, as announced yesterday, has been so small...
...tariff question Harvard has been always accused of a partiality toward free trade, and business men have often felt that in sending their sons hither they were running great risk in that vile free trade notions would grow up in their boys. As we all know, our political economy professors are free traders, but the impartial way in which course one has taken up the subject of the tariff, is a matter of congratulation to all political economy students. The skeptical and impartial manner in which work is generally pursued here is one of the greatest advantages of this college...
...most entertaining and instructive course of lectures to which the students have listened for some time. It was well that the use of leisure time should be considered from, so to speak, a professional standpoint. The lecturer recognized the tendency of our present mode of life toward a life of leisure combined with, and comprehended in sensible, remunerative work. It is the duty of every man who is blessed with an opportunity to rest from the sterner duties of life to so cultivate, so use his time that the highest good may result not only to himself, but also...
...laboratory in the presence of the instructor. The hours of laboratory work ought to be regarded much in the same light as lectures or recitations, and the same decorum ought to be preserved which everybody seems bound to observe in the lecture room. Besides the lack of courtesy toward the instructor, this habit of whistling seriously hinders men doing their work in a careful manner. We hope that we shall not hear any more complaints on this head...
There were but few amusing incidents during the afternoon. The freshmen failed to do their part toward entertaining the crowd on the pier, - that is their crew did, - but the usual number of excited freshmen went rambling through the boat house, asking the difference between a shell and a barge, or a sliding-seat and a stretcher; and one verdant youth created much merriment by remarking that "our crew isn't rowing badly at all," and then pointing to '86 making their way slowly down the river...