Word: objectivity
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...boating men are doing their best. Princeton has so few advantages to boast, and so many disadvantages, that it has always been a matter of doubt in the minds of some whether or not it is best to go to so much expense for an object which is likely to yield us but small returns. With no water but a crooked canal, half a mile from the college grounds, it does at first sight seem foolish, and yet those who profess to know, declare that even these are by no means insuperable difficulties, and have assured us that each successive...
...that four or five hundred youth, collected from their homes, far and near, and housed together for four years, to read books and forget the world, are in a forced and unnatural state, is obvious." A thought that might seem startling, if one did not reflect that the same objection has stood for two centuries, and Harvard has not yet seen fit to abandon her theory of college organization. The writer characterizes the "dig" or "hard student, with absorbed look and unelastic step, the probable consequence of his labors and his watching," and then the sport, "the neglecter...
...would recommend to the attention of the Lacrosse Team the tactics employed by the University Foot-ball Eleven in most of their games last fall. Their principal object was to gain as much as possible in the first few minutes of the game before their opponents had time to gauge their strength. With this in view they started out with a brisk, driving game and nearly every time succeeded in demoralizing their opponents and scoring inside of fifteen minutes...
Yale evidently appreciates the necessity of making it an object for her freshman nine to win the ball game from the Harvard nine, by her provision for not allowing the freshmen to sit on the fence in the event of their failure. Our freshman nine has been laughed at, encouraged and implored, by turns, to vanquish Yale, but all to no purpose. Something must be done, and that before the coming game. Why not make the admission of the freshman class to the tree on class day conditional on their defeat of Yale? When all other means fail, a direct...
...Boston Letter Carrier's Benefit Association will give a grand entertainment at the Mechanics' Association Building Saturday evening, May 20. The object is a worthy one and it deserves to be well patronized...