Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...understand from the Boston papers that an Inter-Collegiate Tennis Association has been formed by Amherst, Brown, Trinity and Yale. Considering the fact that our Tennis Association has done all in its power for the last two years to bring about such an organization, we are surprised that she has received no notice of such intentions on the part of other colleges before. We hear, however, from the daily papers, that Harvard is to be invited to join, and we think we can predict with safety that she will take advantage of the invitation...
...true aims, of college athletics. Both sides, says a prominent Princeton senior, in an able article published in the initial number of The Student and Statesman, assume a false premise, viz., that the inter-collegiate contests affect but a small number of men. It is time that those who understand from daily experience the actual working of the whole system, should have a hearing. The inter-collegiate contest is the main point of attack. The opponents of the system assert that college sports and the benefits arising therefrom are confined to a very few - that the "nine," the "eleven...
...understand that several departments of the university have endeavored to bring about the substitution of theses for forensics in the case of men who are not candidates for honors, but their efforts have not as yet met with success owing to the fear that the study of English proper might suffer. This fear, however, seems to us ungrounded, when we consider how much greater care is generally given to the preparation of theses than of forensics. Another reason for confining this privilege to candidates for honors may be that it is meant as an additional inducement to students...
...three weeks must be calculated ahead, must be taken into consideration. We would deprecate any thoughtless and unnecessary complaint on the part of members of the association, as calculating to injure the interests of the hall and of the six hundred students who board there. As we understand it, affairs are thoroughly investigated each month by an auditor who is regarded as fully competent for the position; and furthermore his report is examined and investigated by a committee from the board of directors, who may be supposed to have discretion and capacity...
...college were spent in the acquisition of Latin and Greek, a smattering of mathematics, enough of logic to distinguish barbara from celarent, enough of rhetoric to know climax from metonomy, and as much of metaphysics as would enable one to talk learnedly about a subject he did not understand. The students lodged in the dormitories and ate at the commons. The food then partaken of with thankfulness would now create a riot in a poor-house. At breakfast, which was served at sunrise in summer, and at day-break in winter, there was doled out to each student a small...