Word: towardness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...better selection in respect to the authors under study is made, little benefit can be derived from the reserved books upon which the great majority are compelled to rely for their knowledge of the writers. Irving is as poorly represented as Goldsmith. No attempt seems to be made toward a biographical study of the writers. None of the standard lives are reserved, and the biographical study of the writers appears to be left to the discretion of the student...
...make up our minds about accepting the invitation was very short. Accordingly, last Monday afternoon, shortly after two o'clock, we found ourselves at Wellesley station, and there our good luck began; for standing before us on the platform, we met a young lady with whom we walked toward the college. And here we learned our first lesson. We will not relate how we learned it, but will simply warn all who may read this never to call that lovely piece of water, at the foot of Wellesley College, a pond. This is the sin of sins for which...
...uses the gymnasium places a card with his name written on it. It is to be hoped that when our liberal (!) and progressive (?) Board of Trustees find out how many men are daily compelled to exercise in this small and over-crowded space, they will take some steps toward giving us a gymnasium worthy of the university...
...short, some such instruction as we ask, would have a definite effect toward elevating the literary tone of the college in no small degree. A man could then have a definite aim in writting: his only reward would not be a few cabalistic signs, and a small mark,-the usual result of the present system. He would be able to work to advantage, for he would be working intelligently. And we are strongly inclined to believe that there is not so much spare intelligence in the college that it can afford generously to throw away a possible chance to work...
...freshman class has failed to do its full share toward the success of the winter meetings. From a class of its size the college naturally expects,-and rightly, too,-a large number of entries. It is true that eighty-eight made a good showing at the field meetings of last fall, and that the number of its men at present working with the candidates for the Mott Haven team is gratifying; yet the college is justified in expecting each freshman class to come forward and contribute its share towards making a success of the gymnasium meeting, and this eighty-eight...