Word: plain
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hazing" affair at Trinity College, if correctly reported, does seem to have altogether overstepped the bounds of fairness, not to say of humanity. Such actions can be called nothing less than brutal; and the sooner the college press states in plain terms the character of the deed, and its opinion of such actions, the sooner will it become no longer a matter of laughter among college men for barbarous tortures, bullying, and branding of arms to be resorted to as a means of vengeance by irate upper class men. There has been a time when hazing was a harmless...
...Heavy Weight Tug-of-War two teams were entered - that of the Jamaica Plain Athletic Association and the Institute team. The Jamaica Plain team, although a middle weight team, succeeded in winning after a hard struggle...
...most exciting event of the day was the Middle Weight Tug-of-War. The entries were the Harvard '82 team, the Jamaica Plain team and that of the Institute. The Jamaica's won easily. Dr. Sargent of Harvard acted as referee...
...ideas into the mind through objects, classifying ideas, comparing them, and combining them into new creatures of the imagination. Rote learning is simply inculcating stupidity, both in pupil and teacher. It will be a happy day for the public schools when all teachers are made to understand these plain truths...
...Memorial Hall, at Harvard, will be surprised to learn that the students have almost to a man ceased to avail themselves of it, and that the meals there are to come to an end unless by the 22d more diners are forthcoming. High thinking may consort exceedingly well with plain living, but plain living is not poor living, and poor living has been the main feature of Memorial Hall. Carelessly cooked food, served half cold, with execrable tea, and yet more execrable coffee, have been the staple. It is very important that young men should have nutritious, palatable food. Americans...