Word: manned
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...test, for other and more difficult studies, and is a living type on which we may build our theories. Its application is practical enough. The habit of comparison and inquiry which it forms finds daily exercise, and cannot be too highly cultivated; and in our age, when a man of culture cannot exist without the knowledge of at least two languages besides his own, the theory of language is, or should be, of some importance to him. It guards him from the error, so frequently met with in earlier times, of guessing at an etymology, or of establishing...
...rowing at the spring races would serve to develop it early in the season, which is well known to be an advantage; the class crews, inasmuch as it would present to each individual member a higher goal to be worked for. So that the height of ambition for a man that stood no chance for the University would not have been reached when he had succeeded in getting on his class crew; while a lasting advantage would be gained if it increased the number of rowing men, - as it would seem natural that it should, - and provided more and better...
There are several ways in which this second University crew might be chosen, - each class-crew might send its best man, and they choose the other two; or, better, the crews might meet and elect a captain who would pick out from them five more men. The men would be already trained, so that it would only be necessary for them to row before the race until they had "fallen together...
...February is Washington's birthday. It is observed as a legal holiday throughout the land. State and national governments unite in doing honor to the memory of almost the only man in our history concerning whose character and services there is no difference of opinion. Banks, post-offices, and stores are closed, and business is everywhere suspended; but Harvard College, on its little spot of ground in Cambridge, Massachusetts, utterly ignores the fact that such a person as Washington ever existed or had a birthday, and calmly goes on in its daily routine. We are forced to the conclusion that...
...mortifying fact, but one whose truth can hardly be questioned, that, as a rule, college students have remarkably poor memories. Let any upper-class man try to recall some of the studies of his preparatory course, or even of his Freshman year, which have not been brought into requisition by his subsequent work; let him question a majority of his classmates on the same points, and any doubts he may have as to forget-fulness among students will, I think, be removed. The fact is brought before us in a peculiarly vivid manner, with which we are all more...