Word: towardness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that their achievement will not attract any notable share of public attention, and that base-ball and boat racing will be studied with a fervor which cannot but trumpet the accomplishments of their classic followers to the notice and admiration of an expectant world. Local pride leans more kindly toward the victories of brawn than towards those of mind, and a college year is ever made more memorable by its athletic than by its intellectual victories. In the meanwhile, there are earnest and conscientious students who value college for the mental as well as the muscular training it provides...
...great fire and passion. Considerable improvement was found in the tone of the oboe over what has been heard before, which contributed not a little to the general. As regards the Eroica, the writer certainly never heard a better performance. So perfectly was the comper's idea expressed that toward the close of the second movement the intensity of feeling became almost painful. The scherzo, following this, makes so much of a contrast that it hardly seems in keeping with the rest of the symphony. The fifth symphony of Beethoven presents a much better example of a consistent whole, resting...
...This question why 'the critics who have so much to say of the Yale corporation do not open their fire on the government at Harvard,' is easily answered. The critics are graduates of Yale, members of the body which elects some of its governors. They hold no such position toward Harvard, and might justly be accused of impertinence if they undertook to meddle with the internal affairs of the sister university. Moreover, Harvard has already what the most of these critics seek for Yale, an adequate representation of the alumni in the governing board. 'Anti-Revolutionist' fails to mention...
...often said that 'the faculty' governs Yale. This cannot be the so-called university faculty, embracing all the professors, for that faculty never meets, and exists only in name. Which, then, of the six faculties is it that enjoys this prerogative, and what position does it hold toward the other five? Or is it true that the interests of the university as a whole are entirely neglected...
...change. These were the only serious accidents of the game. The feature of the game was a remarkable play by the Yale endrush, who, catching the ball with skill which would have made Nausicaa and her maids turn green with envy, run with the speed of a winged Mercury toward Harvard's goal, at the same time displaying to full advantage, a row of pearl-like teeth, and a beautiful pair of side whiskers, through which the gentle zephyrs softly whistled as he proudly bore his treasure down the field. A touch down was made, from which the full-back...