Word: confirmed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...general oxordium to the recently published Inter-Collegiate Athletic Regulations omitted from the telegraphic report is as follows: "The object of physical training is to confirm health, correct morbid tendencies, strengthen weak parts, give a symmetrical muscular development, and secure as far as possible a condition of perfect physical vigor. In order to accomplish these desirable ends, young men are encouraged to take exercise, and to enter into the general practice of athletic sports and games. If, however, the object of physical training be lost sight of, and the desire to win the championship, or to attain the highest degree...
...success is often different from the popular ideal. Now that the ancient institution of wranglers is practically being abolished at Cambridge in England, considerable discussion is being called forth upon this question in the English press, and the recent publication of a complete list of senior wranglers seems to confirm the popular prejudice about the worthlessness of university honors as an index to future success. The last Cornhill Magazine says on the matter : "Our conclusion is a very simple one. It is simply this, that university distinctions are attainable by the same qualities which lead to eminence in after life...
...friend "Ephraim" in the last number of the Athenaeum. This gentleman has certainly not laid himself open to personal asperities; his reviews and criticisms have been distinguished for good temper, exact judgment, moderation, and ability; and his manly refusal to enter into any duel with the Athenaeum can only confirm us in our previous high opinion...
...unsectarian principles of the School to the letter; but, as far as we know, such a step has never been thought of by the Faculty. The general impression is that a Divinity School cannot be unsectarian, and the failure of our own to maintain this character would seem to confirm this impression. But we see no reason why the abstract questions of theology should not be taught and discussed in an unbiassed manner, as well as those of philosophy and psychology, and we trust that Harvard may succeed in proving the possibility of such a system of instruction...