Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This if true is certainly as much a matter of pride to the college in general as to Dr. Hale and his coadjutors on the board of overseers, and the appeal for the correction of certain minor defects in the matter need not be made in vain. Yet every advance made by the college in the improvement of these exercises but emphasizes more strongly the essentially false character under which they are held. A college, which in other matters distinctly disowns the paternal theory of college government makes but and ill showing in insisting upon preserving the anomaly of compulsory...
...will be found that the facts are only such as have their foggy existence in want of knowledge and misconception. A small list, in proportion, of tramps, loafers, paupers, will be gathered from college alumni. Nor will it be found that mechanical pursuits and the handicrafts are calling in vain for skill men. But on the contrary it will be found that they are over supplied, as the times are, and willing mechanics every now and then have to wait for employment. It is also a fact that colleges and college-bred men have done their share in performing...
...verbal memory and physical endurance. So wide is the range of study required now even in primary schools that nothing more can be done by the pupil than to commit the text-books to memory; to learn as it were the alphabet, the dictionary, of each science, in the vain hope that in after life he may learn to comprehend it, to speak the language. Without entering upon the vexed question of the higher education for women, we may illustrate our meaning by the schedule of studies offered the other day to women in Columbia College. The range of study...
...entertainment given last evening by the Pi Eta Society was excellent in every respect. Mr. Belshaw, who played the title role in both comedy and farce, was inimitable, and showed a wonderful diversity of talent in portraying first the good-natured but vain-glorious Papa Perrichon, and then the rollicking Irish boy, who manages to get into mischief every minute, and to get out again immediately after, by use of his mother-wit. Messrs. Lord and Jack played the parts of the two rival suitors with excellent taste. The female roles were taken by Messrs. Fox and Cushing, the former...
...best of physical exercise we firmly believe is to be got from athletic sports. When then the present reform has brought it about that every student shall find his place in some athletic sport, it can be said that the agitation now so frequent will not have been in vain. But not until this result seems in some fair way of being attained should the agitation for this end cease. The same writer we have quoted also says very forcibly: "The great danger which besets our college students is not an undue fondness for open-air sports, but the direct...