Word: reflections
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cambridge Assemblies held in the gymnasium have proved a doubtful success. Without wishing to reflect at all upon the managers, for the lack of management displayed, we do desire to register our disapproval of the use of the gymnasium for such a purpose in the future. The invitation to a few of the students, a sop to Cerberus, will not lull the students in general to overlook the inconveniences arising from the preparation of the gymnasium for general social purposes, the danger from a slippery floor, and the misplacement of apparatus. We do not wish to grumble, or seem unreasonable...
...titles themselves almost frighten us. "Friendship," "Purpose," "Ruhmes Halle," - these have an unpleasant abstractness about them and hardly seem to belong to college journalism. Still, it must be confessed, some of these attempts at philosophy, at the ethical and the didactic, are exceedingly well made, and would reflect credit on papers of a higher order...
...body, we are convinced that its athletic material is fully up to the average, even if it does not go beyond it. We are sure, then, that the athletes of eighty-nine can give us an exhibition at their coming sports which shall at the same time reflect credit upon their class, and remove all apprehensions of future defeat in track athletics...
...every office on the ticket is to be contested by two or more candidates. That the class will vote intelligently and without undue regard for society influence we have no doubt. We venture to predict that the list of officers printed in our columns to-morrow morning will reflect credit on the judgment of the class...
...leading colleges of our land, and in this way, by united action, the tendency to degrade the good old meaning that has been attached to these former exclusive titles of learning can be corrected, and in the end, a standard for conferring the higher degrees established, that will reflect additional honor on the giver, and on the recipient...