Word: constant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There is one point in the management of the new baths which seems to me to be of much greater importance than the laying of slates in the drying room. I refer to the constant dripping of scalding drops from the hot water pipes on to the shoulders of the bathers. Can not something be done to prevent this...
...Carolina college, asking for help in the question of the debate in which I took part. Only a few days previous to this application, I had a letter from an Illinois college asking for some directions, and last year I got a dozen or more such requests. In the constant growth of college interests, debating and speaking will have a chief place, and the success of the work already done in these matters is heartily recognized and appreciated. The increase in debating interest and the credit which the college will receive for it have only just begun...
...enthusiasm for his work is kept more fully alive by the elective system: Educational Review, VII, 313; VIII, 64.- (1) It allows him to pursue the branches in which he is interested.- (2) He can avoid branches disagreeable to him.- (3) The presence of graduate workers acts as a constant incentive to him.- (4) He is stimulated by more sympathetic intercourse with his instructors.- (b) It leads to "Emancipation of Thought"; Educational Review, IV, 366; VII, 313 fg.; Graduates' Magazine II, 468.- (1) It tends to break down conventional dogma.- (2) It accustoms the student to think for himself...
...numbers can be indicative of interest, the meeting of candidates for the nine last night was highly encouraging. The plan of having a "College" team seems an excellent one, in fact the only good way of ensuring constant competition for positions on the University nine. The season has started with the right spirit. It needs only to be kept up to ensure the successful season to which all Harvard men are so earnestly looking forward...
...wish the undergraduates could know the feeling toward Harvard which exists down town among men who didn't go to college. Her name coupled with athletics is a laughing-stock. What is worse, owing to the present prominence of athletics, the name of Harvard as a university, from constant association with defeat, is loosing its reputation among a number of men, who, not graduates themselves, have sons who will soon be old enough for college...