Word: forth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...pamphlet has lately come to our notice which, it seems to us, out to receive the attention of the college. It contains the addresses delivered last spring (mostly by Harvard men) in behalf of the Boston Children's Aid Society. These addresses show forth a great field of work open not only to Harvard men in particular, but to all humanity-loving citizens...
...stated that since the final vote on the matter rested with the Overseers, and since the Overseers are elected by the Alumni, in order that the Alumni may fully understand the position taken by the Faculty, "a circular has been sent by the University to every Alumnus, setting forth the problem which the college Faculty was called upon to solve, and of the considerations which determined its action." However admirable such a scheme might be, the facts of the case are that no such move has been taken...
...seniors are rowing every day in the gymnasium. The work consists of sitting half an hour on the seats in the rowing room and swinging back and forth with their hands on their chests trying to master the elementary body motions. Besides this, the men run a short distance beyond Porter's station every day and go through some dumb-bell exercise. The rowing is of such a character that nothing can be said of it by way of criticism. Several of the men who rowed in last year's crew will no doubt begin in the spring but only...
...Mott Haven team and will greatly increase the facility for doing good work. At either end of the long board walk, extending from the gymnasium to the east corner of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, curved extensions are to be placed so that sprinters may run any distance back and forth without being compelled to stop. These curved extensions will be of board to correspond with the present plank walk. Five times down and back the walk and around the curves will make a mile-so that not only the sprinters but the long-distance men will profit...
Protessor James's article on the three years' course is, however, of great interest as showing exactly the frame of mind in which the majority of the Harvard faculty view the proposed change. Professor James sets forth the various motives for it vigorously and, in many cases, plausibly, but not always convincingly...