Word: well
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...their own pleasure in the clubs, and the crew on which depends the honor of the University in boating. Now I wish to propose a plan for a University boat-club, which shall make the interests of all common, and which shall be a boat-club in fact as well as in name, giving every member the opportunity of rowing. This plan could not be carried into effect immediately, but as soon as the clubs have bought and paid for the boats they now hire, - say in a year from now. It is as follows: That the subordinate clubs consolidate...
Members of athletic or rowing associations, unless known to the Club, will be required to furnish a certificate of membership, and any person not a member of a recognized club must be properly introduced by some well-known person who can vouch for his being an amateur...
...modern languages for the higher courses in mathematics have been allowed for more than half a century. At the present day, any attempt to teach in a four years' course all the subjects which now could claim a place in a liberal education would result in graduating students well crammed, perhaps, but certainly very poorly educated...
...totally irresponsible, then, for all puerilities and crudities that may ever be found in that [the literary] department. The articles therein published are merely the expressions of individual opinions, and so long as they are not indecent or inappropriate, we cannot very well exclude them. If there were as many good articles handed in as we could use, that would please us much indeed, for it would push the poor ones out. Otherwise we cannot easily get rid of them. So, if lower classmen are left to do the work, and in doing it, attack subjects which are as much...
...picture to yourself a man whose sole care in life, as far as it appears, is the burden of lighting sundry fires and cleaning various boots. It would seem as if this responsibility was not enough to make him absent-minded, yet one would suppose that a tolerably well-brought-up mule would know that a day in January with the wind blowing at the rate of fifty miles an hour, and the thermometer feeling after the floor, was colder than the spring days of April; but not so my scout. All through the winter he used to put barely...