Word: towardness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...standard of thinking and living. It may be made to turn our thoughts, from the almost unavoidable sordidness around us, to the higher, and finer things of life. That the so-called daily prayers at Harvard fail in this purpose, is too true. They stimulate few or none toward better actions. The failure, however, is merely because they are not prayers. They are an attempt to unite the worship of God with a police regulation. Such a confusion of acts of devotion with affairs of ordinary college discipline must inevitably destroy in us all feelings of sentiment, and reverence. Under...
...students? The average student, having no family, might almost as well spend one year in New Haven, another in Cambridge, etc., as stay all the four years of his college course in one place, if he could only be enabled in any case to count the work done toward his degree...
...present in our college papers there is a strong tendency toward story-writing. The tendency is a good one; for a well told story is interesting, while a poor one is, perhaps, not as bad as some other poor things. Yet too many of the college stories have the fault of open insincerity. A man tries to write of what he cannot so vividly imagine as to make it a part of his own mental experience. His situations are forced, and the whole affair is wretched, - a result of the author's going beyond himself, to paint what...
...report of the treasurer of the 'Varsity Boat Club shows an extraordinary deficit in the subscriptions from the freshmen. It has been an unwritten custom amounting almost to a law, that the members of the freshman class shall contribute, as a class, more than their share toward the support of the various university teams. This custom has arisen from a variety of reasons. The reason which at once accurs to all is, that the freshmen are not as yet members of any society, and are therefore saved all society expenses. It is answered that they have their own teams...
...gratifying to them and to the college. In reading matter and illustration, the Christmas Lampoon excels all previous numbers of the present year, and in some respects, at least, is superior to the best numbers that we have seen of former years. General attention will undoubtedly be directed toward the double-page drawing, which, while being well conceived, is also exceedingly well executed, the whole sketch having a truly artistic appearance...