Word: reflections
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...finish of the match was therefore postponed by the referee, a decision which gave general satisfaction to the spectators and which resulted at the next meeting in a much better exhibition of sparring than would otherwise have been seen. We hope that the authorities of the Athletic Association will reflect upon this matter, and should they decide to adopt our suggestion we can assure them that they will be warmly supported in their decision by the general opinion of the college and by all lovers of fair play. Should it on any account not be desirable to have the matches...
...Nevertheless the long series of brilliant meetings during commencement week at Harvard of this society, -occasions which have been rendered famous by orations or poems by such men as Emerson, Wendell Phillips, James Russell Lowell, E. C. Stedman, Geo. W. Curtis, Charles Francis Adams and Robert Grant, -cannot but reflect lustre upon the fame of the society in general. The recent establishment of a general senate of the society, composed of delegates from the several college chapters, is likely to do much to increase its influence. The list of senators contains the names of many men prominent in politics...
...cramming," they will acquire enough of the leading matter of the subjects in hand to pass the lest prescribed, and be permitted to go along in the same manner until the next examination time when the process is repeated. Such a state of affairs is really ludicrous, when we reflect that men are sent to college to at least acquire some little knowledge more than they had on entrance. It is worse than a waste of time. It cultivates laziness, and encourages procrastination by urging dependence on a few hours work to carry one along. This would be less painfully...
...education for its own sake, or for the culture which it brings with it, has not as yet gained a hold upon the American people, although this charge would be denied with great indignation. The institutions of learning in this country all to a greater or less degree reflect the feelings of the people, and although a few universities may offer opportunities for education of the higher class, in the case of the majority the instruction offered is always marked by a strong tendency toward what is called "practical" instruction...
...college should be censured for the occasional public disorder of some of the young fellows studying there. He states what is doubtless the fact, that there are only a few of the "men" given to this sort of thing, and that their conduct ought not to be made to reflect upon the entire university. And he has no little justice upon his side. The world is quick to adverse criticism upon people and things, but it is not always as prompt as it might be to render commendation where it is due. Still I do not see how Harvard...