Word: well
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...article entitled "Graduates and Boating," as well as in the Captain's communication to your journal, an appeal is made to graduates for pecuniary aid. These contributions were elicited by the letters written respectively by '52 and myself. To ask for alms is an extraordinary way to answer a criticism. I write that I disapprove the present system, and you reply by asking me for money to perpetuate that system. Though I will not accept the principle that advice must be backed up by dollars and cents, and though I am not now in a position to subscribe...
...they had done. He confessed that when he came to college he had no inclination to go into society, he was awkward in entering a room. "But you have thrown open to us your parlors," he continued, "and have enabled us to acquire ease of manner and grace as well as dignity of bearing...
...possible either with said shoes or else by keeping up a constant buzzing with their tongues, like flies in fly-time. Their answers to all questions are, invariably, "You must use your own judgment about it," or, "What! you don't mean to say you don't know that? well, I am surprised!" And so they play their part...
...instructors to make it more attractive; and it seemed to me that the causes of the unpopularity of our advanced mathematics, as laid down by the correspondent, were hardly satisfactory. In a measure, this unpopularity may be attributed to the way in which mathematics is taught, or to the well-grounded belief that in this department there are no soft electives, but I think it is mainly due to the fact that Calculus and Analytic Mechanics belong to the field of special study, and are not among the elements of a "liberal education." Were Mathematics 11 made ever so attractive...
...have very cloudy notions as to what is meant by a university. Far be it from me to insinuate that those who use the term do not know what they are talking about; but they take it for granted too easily that the rest of the College are as well informed as themselves...