Word: real
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...timely contribution by Professor F. W. Taussig on "Political Economy and Business," since, as the author writes, "nearly every undergraduate takes a course in Political Economy sooner or later in his college career," it will aid many students in their choice of electives to be informed of the real relation of this study to after life. Professor Taussig shows that it "is concerned little, if at all, with the individual and with the causes of his success or failure" in business. For "the business man is mainly concerned with the immediate future; the economist with the permanent trend of affairs...
...including all the senior class, represent an effort to put into effect an idea which has occurred independently to many members of the University. Many senior have pieces of furniture which they do not care to take away with them, and which if sold, would bring nothing like their real value as measured by their capacity to do service in a student's room. A plan has been carefully arranged by which such articles can be loaned on proper terms to students who would otherwise have to buy. The plan is not a promiscuous charity, but simply a design...
...explicable feeling that is in the very air of Cambridge; among the men on the various athletic teams as well as among the undergraduates at large. A lifeless, listless attitude toward everything; a "we can't-help-it" spirit that is sickening. In short a total lack of real, whole souled enthusiasm...
...those who know Leavitt it is not necessary to say that there is not a word of truth in the above. The real facts are these: Shearman had at the games a pole which he had neglected to test beforehand, and when he came to use it he found that it was too heavy. He thought that Leavitt's pole would suit him better, and requested the loan of it. Leavitt is a much lighter man than Shearman, and there was considerable question whether the pole would endure the additional strain; it was therefore perfectly natural that Leavitt should...
...whom have never even been in Cambridge. It would be much fairer if the allotment were according to seniority. Then every man could look forward with certainty to two or possibly three years in the yard. Such an arrangement could easily be put into effect and would remedy a real grievance without injustice to anyone...