Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...faculty, the character of professional teachers of mathematics and physics is, as a whole, higher than that of professional baseball players. Suppose that we grant this to be true; does it follow that the students of Harvard College are so weak that their methods and morals would suffer from the little contact they have with men who make ball-playing a business? It might be well for the faculty to turn its attention a little more closely to some other aspects of the moral training of Harvard College and let such slight matters as professionalism take care of themselves...
...necessary reduction of the present exorbitant rates demanded for rooms, and Harvard would cease to be, as it is, notorious for the high prices which its students are compelled to pay for rent. It is true that the present high prices of the Cambridge retail dealers might suffer from the advent of the new road. but this would be more than counterbalanced by the opportunity afforded the students and the citizens of Cambridge of dealing directly with the large stores in Boston. It is asserted that the elevated road would destroy the business prospects of the Cambridge stores. The truth...
...mental occupation. The mind should be interested in exercise while the body is engaged. But how secure the co-operation of the mind? That is the real problem to solve. Very few can be induced to exercise form a sense of duty. The majority go without it till they suffer illness from the want of it, and then prefer a doctor's remedies to Nature's By the present system of college athletics these requisites are met, if not perfectly, at least as well as it is possible for them to be met. They furnish a mental stimulus. They...
...usual January thaws from which we suffer every winter remind us, much more forcibly than the heavy snow, of the need of a few more plank walks in the yard. It is at just this season of the year when the library is most in use. The pleasant weather and a nine stretch of brick or slate walks lures the unwary student on his way to the library into the delusion that walking is just as good elsewhere as at his own door. Taking this easy-going thoughtless view of the case, he leaves his rubbers in his room...
...however we may try to account for this, the fact remains, and as there seems to be little or no remedy for it, we must, while deeply deploring such a state of affairs, suffer and be still. There is one way, however, in which we may possibly be able to make some little reform, and that is by endeavoring to influence the college correspondents of the various newspapers who for the most part are college men, and frequently undergraduates, while others are exceedingly "fresn." We therefore think that if they could be made to feel that they were in some...