Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...committee from the several classes which has been appointed to collect subscriptions for the new track is as follows : J. R. Coolidge and C. H. Kip, '83; W. M. Burr, '84; Eliot, Norton and W. R. Trask, '85; R. R. Belmont and G. L. Peabody, '86; J. P. Clark, Medical School, and R. T. Jackson...
...little work, which bears upon this subject and furnishes some very interesting statistics, has just been brought out by an Englishman, Mr. A. A. Reade. It is entitled "Study and Stimulants." The author has taken pains to collect personal opinions and experiences from men distinguished in literature and science, and has thereby arrived at conclusions which cannot fail to be serviceable to all brain workers. These conclusions are as follows: 1. That alcohol and tobacco are of no value to a healthy student. 2. That the most vigorous thinkers and hardest workers abstain from both stimulants. 3. That those...
...surpassing worth and the others of inferior merit. On the whole, the American system in this respect is to be preferred, unless a man desires to study a specialty. It should be the aim of a university first to make all its departments thorough and scholarly and then to collect the brilliant men of the country around the nucleus already formed. Men go to Harvard and Yale because they believe that at those institutions they will find the best general faculty and methods of teaching, although in some one department they may feel that some other college is superior. Brilliant...
...drinking to the grand show, in all of which study is neglected, and must be neglected, is an abomination of the first order. It is a shame that college presidents are actually promoting this demoralizing system. It would seem as if these worthies thought that colleges were instituted to collect a crowd of young bloods together that they might have a high time. No wonder so many young men cannot go to college because all this high living is so costly. If they refuse to pay the taxes for all sorts of fooling they are shoved aside as mean fellows...
Yale's interest in lacrosse is growing; members of the different classes are delegated by the association to collect subscriptions...