Word: towardness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...discussion, and perhaps is the most worthy building of all to be put into active use. It is a shame that it should be suffered to remain idle as it is at present when one thinks of the many victories gained by the ball teams that it has contributed toward the college's athletic standing. Among many suggestions, one, the turning the building into a swimming bath, ought to receive careful consideration at the hands of the faculty. A fair-sized bath might be made in the building at not a great expense as the shape of the building...
...next in order. Harvard did not show up well among the eleven entries. Walker tailed in toward the end and Root only showed himself in the middle of the crowd at the finish. Faries of the University of Pennsylvania, won with a record of 4m. 45 1-5s., and H. L. Mitchell of Yale, was second. To contest...
...degree a suggestive one; it must teach a man how to think even more than what to think, and must from its very nature abandon the old rut of thought. The favor with which the "new subjects" are received shows plainly how undergraduate feeling is disposed toward them. Men at college fully realize the nature of the times into which they have been thrown and when allowed to shape their own courses, naturally follow out this new line of education. Cast-iron rules of education must lose their place as this feeling of revolt against them grows stronger...
President Porter's idea that Yale is doing its full duty toward young women by educating young men to "influence" them is thoroughly mannish. The best influence commonly comes from the other side. At the same time, we rare that Wellesley or Vassar is better for the girls than Yale or Harvard. [Herald...
...college of the City of New York is taking steps toward the formation of a rifle club...