Word: gathered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...instructor, their length varying, of course, inversely with the number required. The subjects could easily be made so comprehensive as to necessitate a fair knowledge of the ground covered by the course, and even if they were only special topics, the student would be so keenly alive to gather anything which might be said concerning his particular specialty that he would inevitably learn all that was said, involuntarily as it were. These theses would, of course, be marked excellent, good, bad, etc., and not by percentages; thus doing away with all ranking, except by grades, which...
...culture in this most important branch, but at the same time, there are many things which require just as much practice relatively as criticism. This class of work binds one more or less to a set method of thought, and a narrow way of looking at things. You cannot gather figs from thistles, nor acquire a ready style and ample vocabulary from constant application of the familiar, "What does the author attempt? Is the attempt worth while? Is the attempt successful?" These three phrases stand like ghouls at the mental feast of every wretched sophomore, and, with cruel knives carve...
...hardly fitted to inspire a man with a profound idea of his intellectual duty to himself during the warm months. But a zealous student finds during his collegiate term that he has but little time to devote to collateral reading, and is only allowed by pressure of circumstances to gather a list of those books which he deems it his duty to read subsequently when he shall possess more leisure. But if this is neglected, the student falls into the ever ready snare of summer reading. The inadequacy of college life for many of our higher intellectual needs...
...interesting to watch the students as they gather. The lecture never begins before a quarter past the hour, and during that time the students straggle in, one by one. Each has an enameled cloth or leather pocket, in which he carries his papers and books for taking notes. He leisurely hangs up his hat and coat, spreads out his papers, and takes from his pocket an inkstand and a common steel pen. The blackened desks and streaked floors give ample proof of the catastrophes that have overtaken these inkstands in times past. An American stylograph would be an untold blessing...
...should be that the best man should beat, and in a gentlemanly way." Again, he says that the howling which was a feature of certain base ball games last year, "indicates a deplorable lowering of the general tone of college sentiment." These are golden words, and from them we gather encouragement for the cause of athletic reform. Not that we believe that Mr. Ripley reflects the general sentiment of Yale; but a little leaven of this sort introduced there can not but work some change...