Word: evening
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...knew him prized very highly his ideals and sterling character; but few, even among his intimates, realized fully the heroism with which he threw himself into this work. His health, at best, was very frail, and he well knew its frailty; but he never faltered. His courage was none the less real because it was silent and unobtrusive; and he leaves with us an enduring reverence for the brave and able fulfillment of his duty, as well as warmly affectionate memories of his kindly and sympathetic personality...
...Leslie has been improving steadily. At the first of the spring season, he let his shoulders jump up in the air in the first part of the recovery; now, however, he has remedied this to a large extent and gets a cleaner, more even finish. He is still a trifle stiffer than the other men in the boat...
...earnestly, and Mr. Angell comes to a conclusion arrived at by a committee of the Faculty long ago--that there is too much lecturing for the outside work which the lectures demand. On the other hand, it is possible to overdo long personal conferences and "small meetings." They may, even more than lectures, explain what the student should discover for himself; and they may require of the professor more hours a day than the day contains. President Eliot is said to have observed that the trouble with the Garfield theory of Mark Hopkins and the log is "in finding enough...
...third game of the season, the University association football team was defeated by Columbia University on South Field, New York, Saturday, by a score of 2 to 0. The offensive work of the two teams was very even and it was not until almost the end of the first half that C. E. Dwyer, on pass from G. J. Dwyer, made the first goal for Columbia. In the second half G. J. Dwyer scored. Owing to good defensive work by Fahnestock, Paul, and Cushing, Columbia was unable to score more than once in each half...
Intelligence may surely be retained as real even by those who are unwilling to admit anything not rationally connected with the objects of positive science. Now, if science does not mean a mere illusory process, the creative operation of intelligence, as distinguished from the scientific reduction of reality to inert terms, may be considered as absolutely pertinent to the nature of reality, and as well entitled to command all our efforts in its carrying...