Word: distinguished
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...loose. The loss of Allen behind the plate made our battery ineffective, and though Henshaw faced Nichols' terrible delivery most pluckily, the team was demoralized. Stagg and Dann were the saving points of Yale's team; Brigham played a good game in left field, but the others did not distinguish themselves. Edgerly bore off the honors for Harvard, and Foster and Wiestling also did excellent work. The umpiring was inconceivably bad. Grant seemed determined to made every decision against Harvard, his ruling on Allen's foul being more than usually flagrant. It is a poor excuse to offer...
...Less stress will le laid on dates and details than on an ability to distinguish the significant points in the work gone over, and to understand their relations: a good general comprehension can, however, be based only on a previous study of details...
...same way that a great classical or mathematical scholar is. He who writes for the college papers gets a popularity, small to be sure, but in kind, somewhat like that of the athlete. It is, in a certain degree, a credit to the class. Accordingly, many who cannot distinguish themselves in athletics, are beginning to look upon a place on an editorial board as a good way to become favorably known in college...
...fill our prominent pulpits than the graduates of any two other colleges in the land. Is it that our teaching is purely secular? Why did we come to Harvard above all other colleges, but to get teaching that was secular, free from the eternal theological dogmas and cant which distinguish so many of our sister-colleges? Is it that the tone of student thought is unhealthy and opposed to more sacred things? Here we are on difficult ground, but student thought is not opposed to religion. It is true that we do not have revivals; nor do we turn...
...also very true, that certain parts of many studies can be best tested by written examinations. Let us then accept written examinations without hesitation in these cases; but let the general coarse scale be applied here too; for it is still necessary, and we cannot fairly distinguish, in marks, between different parts of the same subject, or between different subjects. But, - and this is a most important consideration, - as Harvard grows and takes on a more university character, written examinations tend steadily to disappear. For this means of testing is only suited to the technical, elementary, or detailed parts...