Word: elemental
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...banquet of the School-masters' club at the Hotel Brunswick last Saturday, Professor Francis G. Peabody in his after-dinner remarks laid special stress on the dangerous element in college. He proceeded to make an analysis of this element of college life which results from the foolishness of homes, the priggishness of many preparatory schools, and the selfishness of some natures. The false standards, false ideals, spirit of worldliness, and the worship of money at homes where expenses are carried beyond the bounds of reason and habits are excessive, are so threatening as to make all students apprehensive. There...
Moreover, there is an element of injustice in allowing a man to spend money, time and energy in preparing for a race which he is not to be allowed to enter. We have had the evils and inconveniences of the system so well illustrated in a recent case of disqualification that we cannot but recommend the consideration of the matter by the proper authorities...
...social element grows among the students from year to year. The apartments of Fay house are, indeed, too restricted to allow of as much congregation under its roof as may be thought desirable, but the accommodation is made the most of, and the spirit of fellowship is greater at present than at any other time. The Idler club and the Emmanuel society are among the means of bringing the students often together in a familiar way. To those the English club has lately been added. It is intended "to arouse an interest in the study of English," and specifically...
...childish tricks are undoubtedly to some degree thoughtless, and cannot therefore be visited with any severe penalty; and yet they exhibit to a disgusting degree a lack of refinement. If there had been any humor in the prank it might be pardoned; unfortunately, however, there was not a single element of wit displayed, and meanwhile strangers crossing the yard were simply disgusted at the vulgarity. Who the offender was will in all probability remain a secret. We take this opportunity, nevertheless, to assure him that his ungentlemanly conduct meets the hearty disapproval of the better sentiment of the college...
...service at Appleton chapel last evening was conducted by Dr. Francis G. Peabody. He took his text from the eighth chapter of Paul's epistle to the Romans, the nineteenth and twentieth verses. He spoke of the element of personal responsibility which underlies and controls development, considering the thought in its relations to home, to society, to government, to the university life, of which we are a part, and finally to man himself. The choir sang Hopkin's anthem, "Lift up your heads," Stainer's, "Blessed be the Man," and Brown's "Thy sun shall no more go down...