Word: depends
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...they were given out of compassion only, and utility would bid me throw them away; but sentiment steps in and makes that to be a choicest possession to me, which, to the utilitarian, is but dust and ashes. No; these are things which I cannot give up. They depend upon feelings which lie too deep for logic. They carry with them a certainty which neither logic, facts, nor figures have ever brought to the mind of man. Is it, then, strange or wrong that they should be so loved...
...generally supposed that in granting to the Senior Class for next year voluntary attendance upon recitations, as an experiment which if not successful would not be repeated, a favor to the students was intended, whose future continuance would depend upon their appreciation of it. If the numbers constantly present at these exercises next year should not be greatly diminished, the next Senior Class might expect to have the same privilege. We think that two considerations have been overlooked. In the first place, the experiment will be tried next year under peculiarly unfavorable auspices, simply because it is an experiment...
...none corresponding to those in the second class, for no one would be inspired with a deeper love of scholarship or oratory because other men were to compete for prizes in those arts. Boating, ball-playing, and other forms of exercise, are the favorites by fits and starts, and depend largely for their popularity upon the prominence which is given to them on set occasions. The boat-house and the ball-field lie outside of our daily course, and if not reminded of them we are apt to forget their existence. But books are in our hands every...
...statement is perhaps here due to those who depend partly on scholarships for meeting their expenses. A condition of stopping out a year is "to take up one's connection" with the College, and this was construed by the authorities in such a manner as to deprive an applicant of the Junior year from his scholarship for the Sophomore year. In spite of the assurance of the President to a member of '74 his application was ruled out, and this decision established as a future regulation. This ruling does injustice to such students, and it is hoped will be reversed...
...more favorable to scholarship, takes their place. Unless the students really feel the necessity or the dignity of learning, there can be no great advance of it. The question at issue is, whether they can be roused better by strict discipline and repeated exhortations than by being compelled to depend on themselves in meeting the exigencies of college life. The first system has been tried, and with tolerable success; but it is significant that, after pupils have got almost to manhood, the slacker the government has been, the more marked the success. It is also to be noticed...