Word: subject
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...This car will carry me out to the College, will it not?" he asked, in a way so confiding that the T. F. opened his heart to him at once, possibly remembering how ignorant he was on this same subject six months...
...Chapel, where prayer was offered by Rev. Dr. Peabody. At about 11.30 the exercises in Sanders Theatre began. After the prayer by Dr. Peabody, Mr. Henry Coolidge Mulligan, of Natick, the orator of the day, was introduced. His oration was thoughtful and vigorous. Without overstepping the bounds of his subject, he contrived to make the time-worn theme fresh and interesting, and to say something which the members of the Class of '79 cannot fail to remember through life...
...arrangement of his reading matter shows how accurately and broadly he has considered his subject. Undoubtedly, incalculably strong tendencies to health or disease are inherited by all of us; but, on the other hand, every one has within his reach the power to better his form and development. It is owing to this, that thus far English college men have beaten us in almost everything. The average of their health is better, and it is therefore natural that their best men should be better than ours. But Mr. Blaikie's book is not intended as a manual for athletes only...
Then there should be a superintendent of the Gymnasium, directly subject to the Professor of Hygiene. He should be a good man and an accomplished gymnast, to teach the proper way of executing the prescribed exercises, see that no one undertakes rash feats, and with tact and presence of mind enough to apply immediate remedies in case of accident. He should be competent to teach sparring, fencing, and wrestling, in classes as well as by private lessons, and be an intelligent gentleman, able and ready to carry out the directions of his superior officer, and one with whom the students...
...happy distinctions of Harvard that a man cannot become popular here unless he fully deserves to be so. But perhaps no society was ever so good that its members did not wish it better; and those of us who have given any thought to the subject must wish that integrity of personal character was more respected, and that rivalry and toadying might be banished from Harvard life...