Word: towardness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...interlopers in college affairs than persons whose support or backing is desirable. Yale men who will take the trouble to read Mr. Henry C. Kingsley's contribution to the November number of the New Englander and Yale Review, can easily learn the disposition of the "powers that be" toward the body of the alumni...
...students of the College of Physicians and Surgeons are fond of getting the end seats in the lecture-room on the top floor of the building. Each of the semi-circular benches is covered with two long crimson cushions, and the practice is to pull one of the cushions toward an end seat, and turn a part of it under so as to make a pillow for the weary medical head...
...literary and in a financial way from the college at large. The freshman class has been very backward in contributing. At this time last year, several editors had been taken on from '88. It is hoped that '89 will begin with the new volume to do its part toward the support of the paper. Contributions should be addressed to the Harvard Lampoon, Cambridge...
...could finish their ice cream and lemonade they were surprised by being invited to go down and dance about the tree. The band which had been practicing Fair Harvard (two years old) started up, also surprised, and began a series of quadrilles and waltzes, which they continued until dark. Toward evening, the seniors for the first time gathered about the old tree and began a wild quadrille of their own, in which they were soon joined by the whole college, the maidens looking on and applauding. Just as the sun was setting, the graduating class formed in line and passed...
...Yale, and Columbia. It is in the schools, in the school training therefore, that the great difference lies. Our schools, in the majority of cases, undertake to "prepare a man for college," that is, they prepare him for his entrance examination, - there they see the end of their obligations toward their pupils. It is for the work he is to do in college that they ought to prepare him, not for the list of facts and rules necessary to get into college. And that is what the German gymnasia do: they encourage independent thought they try to develop the individual...