Word: plainly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Lost - At the athletic meeting last Saturday a small light brown Malacca cane with a plain gold head. A reward of $2 will be paid for its return to 64 Thayer, or for any information leading to its recovery...
...Cornell graduate speaks in bitter terms of college faculties. "A college faculty," he cries, "to speak the plain, unvarnished truth, is a body content without a soul, without a sense of responsibility, for the simple reason that the individual is lost in the multitude. It is impossible to obtain from an aggregation of twenty or thirty men anything like uniformity of action. The whole is broken up into groups or cliques which do not act in concert, and according as one or the other of such cliques may be present on a given occasion, the voting will be decided...
...late Harvard dinner President Eliot gave the key-note to the alumni of that university by dilating on the blessings of poverty to educational institutions. His plain meaning was that those who have their millions to spare should give them to Harvard, which has so large an endowment now that it cannot be harmed by receiving more, instead of to Yale, which is to be preserved by being kept poor. The question of the co-education of the sexes is attracting a good deal of attention just now. Old Columbia has been shaken to her foundations...
...thing is plain. Cornell must again assert itself as independent of any American model, or ever hold itself in its present position. Yale and Harvard are infinitely above us and always will be so, unless we follow a course distinct from theirs. We cannot compete with them on their own grounds. Cornell must take an advanced position, or be left in the lurch...
Politics should enter more largely into the American college curriculum. It is plain that in this way alone can the standard of politics in this country be raised. The tendency of modern life is every day running towards specialization, and this tendency will undoubtedly soon be a factor in political life. In England and Germany men fit themselves specially for politics, just as others do for medicine and law. Many schools have been founded specially to prepare for the civil service examinations. The introduction of civil service reform in this country will soon necessitate such special preparation here. The universities...