Word: excellent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...College is the place to try men's capabilities and to point out to them their special talents. But unfortunately at graduation many students are in deeper despair and doubt than they were on entering college. Why is this? The trouble largely lies in their ambition. They desire to excel in what they attempt, a natural and honorable ambition. But they see on every hand scores of men abler than they in the very direction in which they thought themselves especially strong. There comes a feeling of discouragement, and a shock to one's self-conceit. This is the experience...
...matter of landscape gardening Harvard certainly does not excel. Much as we prize the beauty of the yard as it is, we think that there is still great room for improvement. It is but a few days since the authorities in a well-meaning way spread a nasty mess of muck over the entire yard, the odors arising from which being not only offensive but unhealthy. We would remind the fossiliferous yokel who has charge of the farming department of the university, that the fertilizer in question is now only used in the cultivation of potatoes and cabbages in rural...
President Porter in his recent lecture on law as a profession, spoke of the studies which a man should excel in who studies for that profession, and also of the power of rapid thought and coolness, which are necessary for the study and practice of law, being two different things. In such a country as our own this profession offers great advantages to one who has political aspirations. Almost every one who wishes to engage in a political career thinks it necessary to enter it by means of the law. The financial and social inducements are also strong, not that...
First. No amateur photographer can produce a perfect photograph. Some may excel in one point and others in another. Now by an interchange of opinions members can help each other in correcting their imperfections. There will be meetings held for this purpose and members will be expected to ask and answer questions about their work...
Matthews says : "Of all the efforts of the human mind, there is no one which demands for its success so rare a union of mental gifts as eloquence." Would not those efforts be commendable whose object it is to cultivate in our fellow students an ambition to excel in oratory ? I trust others of the students will express their opinions of this proposition...