Word: remarkably
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...accounts of the concerts in the various cities were always flattering, although much to our amusement, a Chicago paper states that "it is a great pity that there were so few college songs on the programme and so much that was foreign to college life," adding, by way of remark, that "Harvard is in no way a representative American college or university. Her place is unique, there is nothing on earth quite like her." This paper adds that Yale "is not at all what an American college is." This kind of criticism is very encouraging, and needs no further elucidation...
Following this article are some papers on hunting in England and Ireland. "Golf for Women" is an interesting little article by "Albion" "Athletics in Ohio Colleges." by E. W. Forgy, contains the remark t' at "the athletic spirit like the famous 'star of empire' westward takes its way." Most of the colleges of Ohio are co-educational, and nearly all sectarian and religious, while the idea is general that the moral tone of students is injured by athletics. These and many other influences have been exerted against athletics in Ohio, but nevertheless some sports are getting a start there...
...rush line the ends are too slow and their tackling is faulty; in fact this latter remark might be applied to the whole team. The eleven does not tackle well. The line is very much crippled by the loss of their center and it looks as if this were going to be a difficult position to fill...
...Agitation," in which he gives an extremely candid and fair view of the subject on various sides, while nto pretending to hide his own conviction of the impracticability of such legislation. Mr. Warner, in his paper on "The Novel and the Common School," unintentionally emphasizes Mr. Lowell's remark that we are the most common-schooled and least educated people in the world. Mr. Warner asserts that it is the business of schools to teach a love of the good literature which is the fruitage of the world's thought. The "Turn of the Tide" is signed by the initials...
...Religious Greeds" show that there is very little ground for the frequent remark that Harvard education tends towards atheism or agnosticism while the still wider misconception that Harvard is a Unitarian college is also controvert...