Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...print in another column an excellent and unbiased view of the situation, written by Mr. Badger, who has for years filled an important post in the college library. Perhaps nothing in the article is more striking or more likely to be discredited by those who do not thoroughly understand the inner life of the University than the words, "Harvard's greatness is apparent in her poverty." It is poor in order to enable those who come to her doors to receive an education to get it simply by natural ability and steady application, without being dependent upon outside help...
...understand that during the past week, at the inspiration of the Andover Club at Yale, steps were taken towards the formation of a Yale Club in this school. We were much astonished that any such action should be taken by the students and that it should receive the sanction of any portion of the faculty, especially when it is known that a few administrations since the converting of the school into a feeder for one college and the giving to it a sectarian character, alienated the support of the Phillips family, which support has never since been recovered...
...fitting oneself for one's work in this world the first requisite to success is health. How important it is, then, that everyone should understand the working of the human body. How many of those who pass through college and without going to the medical school, and enter on their life work,- how many of them have any proper knowledge of physiology? None. Doubtless a few of the athletic men know something about hygiene as far as training is concerned; and I believe we have had a few things called emergency lectures in times past. But I think that every...
...communication from "Thorg" in yesterday's issue gave its readers to understand that the evils of Harvard life lying in the social root were ineradicable because of our proximity to a large city. This idea is unique, and, we believe, has never been advanced before; but it is not the relty of the statement, but the absuldity contained in it, which we wish to consider. To say that there is no remedy for the snobbishness manifest in so much of our life here is to admit more than any one ought who feels that he has life and vigor...
...magnitude of this beneficiary aid, I doubt if people generally understand, and I have accordingly takes pains to ascertain what was the amount given away this year. I find that to undergraduates alone it was $36,000; to members of the graduate department, $11,000; and to the professional schools, $6,000; making a total of assistance to students of the University of more than $53,000. Next year this enormous sum will be increased $13,000 by the munificent bequest of Mr. Price Greenleaf. Fully to estimate the position of the poor man at Harvard, we should take into...