Word: finding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard undergraduate is a fine sense of veracity." Of the secondary characteristics he mentions "a manly frankness," and, resulting from this, "the less welcome but more obvious traits" of self consciousness and self distrust. Summing up the characteristics of the undergraduate. Mr. Wendall says: "Sincere at heart then we find him; frank, and plagued with a self-consciousness that leads to a somewhat serious lack of assertion, which leads in turn to an evanscent lack of earnestness, and to a rather comical sense of his own immaturity." The author goes on to mention the various manifestations of self a nscicusness...
...here. We do not claim for the University any extraordinary development in spirituality. But, as Mr. Vrooman says, "there is here unusual vigor of religious life;" the religion of the college is, unquestionably, thoroughly healthy and reverential, and of great depth. The scoffer is an unknown quantity, for unbelievers find nothing to attack because they find no one creed upheld and championed. The ministers of the University preach Christ, not theology. There is an agreement in condemnation of all cant and austerity; all exaggeration, undue emotionality and misrepresentation of feeling. The attitude towards religion is one of common sense...
...Sargent went to Yale as instructor in gymnastics. At that meeting there were twenty men entered in twelve events, consisting chiefly of tumbling, trapeze work and bar exercise. Although the first meeting was very successful, for various reasons no games were-held in '74 and '75, and we find frequent allusions in the college papers of that period to the lack of enthusiasm in these branches of athletics...
...Deutscher Verein course, the lecture on "Goethe as Autobiographer," by Professor A. A. Ripley, of Boston, will be very entertaining. In addition to those mentioned, several debates and readings of less general interest are announced. In this list every student ought to be able to find something attractive...
...next great era of the temple dates from its transference from the Greek to the Latin communion. This occurred in the beginning of the thirteenth century, and in 1206 we find a Roman archbishop established on the Acropolis. No important change in the architecture followed, however. It next came under the protection of the Venetians, and many of the treasures of the temple suffered at their hands...