Word: failed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...audience of five students and four outsiders; while a few weeks before a multitudinous concourse of three - including a library clerk - assembled to hear a reading from Faust. It may be that we are now having a surfeit of lectures and readings; but it certainly seems that those who fail to attend our evening readings are neglecting their opportunities in a way which they will be sorry for hereafter...
...advantage arise from? Either from his superior learning or his narrow means. It must be the latter. It cannot be his superior learning, for since competition is not free, how do we know that the learning is superior? Any method of assigning scholarships except according to scholarly merit cannot fail of being demoralizing in proportion as the assignment is influenced by a regard for the circumstances of the applicant. It may be said that a change in the present system would have no different result, that the same men would take the scholarships as take them now. This...
Many of the older graduates feel, perhaps, that they have spent enough on boating, for previous to 1866 the crews were obliged to pay their own expenses, the College only furnishing the boat, if my memory does not fail me. One crew, wishing to experiment, bought their boat without any assistance from the University. Two or even three boats are doubtless necessary (though rarely the latter number), but permit me to say, with all due respect, that the imprudence that orders "five new boats" should pay for the same...
...system of the governing boards of the College is so admirable that we cannot fail to be a little proud of it. The chief power is vested in the hands of those who are most likely to take the deepest interest in the College, and who are best fitted to judge what is for its welfare, - the graduates; we are free from all political influences which stand in the way of advancement in many institutions, and the evils which President Eliot set forth so well in his argument against a National University; we are not governed by a close Corporation...
...begun to melt. Such small points are too apt to be laughed at at Neophogen as over-refinements. Be careful, yet simple in your dress. A brass collar-button is better than a scarlet necktie. Do not lounge with the men at one end of the room, and never fail to go and talk with the girls when the President asks you. Your knowledge of the world will make you a favorite...