Word: thoughtfulness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...death was accidental and under most distressing circumstances. On the 16th of August he attended a base ball game, and while there was playing ball with a friend, when the ball slipped through his hands, striking him between the eyes. He was taken to the hospital, and was thought to be recovering, but lock-jaw set in, and he soon died...
...wise course of elective studies. This freedom is the greatest advance made yet by any American college, and although its utility is doubted by outsiders it is apparent here at Harvard. In our work, moreover, we should strive to have some ideal; seek to cultivate a just independence of thought, and to go beyond what other men have learned. A university amasses human knowledge, stores it up and bids its students push a little farther into study...
...place in the editorial columns of the Advocate. That the rushes do no harm, indeed that they are rather good fun, is admitted but it is not probable that even this part of Bloody Monday Night will long exist in a place where all the tendencies of thought and action are as maturing as they are here at Harvard. It is rather a difficult matter to incite much class enthusiasm among fellovs who are made to feel more and more the longer they stay here that the division into classes is merely an arbitrary one, and means practically nothing...
...second affirmative was defended by Mr. J. L. Dodge '91, who said that Tanner supported the popular party and had done his duty. He had found the treasury with a surplus and this he thought should be used...
...Herrick then suggested that a temporary captain of the crew to be chosen and the names of C. W. Keyes of Boston and D. O. Earle of Worcester were put in nomination. At first Mr. Herrick thought to find out the wish of the class by separating the Earle and Keyes men into two parties. But as this did not prove feasible a ballot was taken and the meeting adjourned. Upon counting the ballots in Mr. Herrick's room, it was found that Keyes had received 73 votes and Earle 119. Mr. Earle was therefore declared elected temporary captain...