Word: caringly
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...rather intimate acquaintance with the slowness with which the authorities make any changes in existing arrangements we are led to believe that for some time to come we must endure this state of things. To make it more endurable, however, both attendants and students must exercise the most scrupulous care to keep everything in the most cleanly condition possible. We are sorry to note that there has been of late a lapse from the standard of neatness which ordinarily prevails in the gymnasium. It ought to take but a word to correct this fault...
...then characterizes the article in the Advocate as a "violent personal attack." This statement is absolutely false. The "attack" was not in the least a personal attack on the gentleman mentioned; the editors of the Advocate neither knew, nor, may it be added with all due respect, did they care, so far as criticizing the sparring went, who or what the gentleman was. The criticism was directed simply and solely against a certain style of sparring, which now, as always, the Advocate has opposed and condemned...
...child's attitude of touching hopefulness is peculiarly striking in this particular. The confidence which he reposes in the fitness and adequacy of providence is nowhere better exemplified than in the unhesitating trust in which he permits his parents to take care of themselves...
Professor Sumner of Yale, says as follows of the change for admission to Harvard:- "I have examined it with great care and I think it an admirable scheme. It is judicious, and marks an important step in the improvement of university education. Every man can suit himself as to his course of studies. The greatest change is in the possibility of avoiding Latin and Greek through the combinations which have been provided for. I see Mr. Charles Francis Adams, Jr., is pressing a movement to substitute English for Latin as the official language of the college. This fact is worthy...
...that time long past the dinner or supper hour of a large majority of this audience, and many of them had come out from Boston to see the games, such a delay was inexcusable. The next meeting will be attended by ladies who, even less than men, will care to remain through a long meeting if delays occur. Nothing breaks up the enjoyment of an entertainment so much as a constant stream of spectators leaving, one party after another, before the affair is over...