Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale game says: "It is but fair to say, however, that Yale obtained a touch-down which was disallowed as much to the surprise of the visitors as of our own Team." This statement, so far as Yale's Team is concerned, is doubtless true, but we do not understand where the Record obtained its information about the visitors, who, if we remember rightly, seemed to think the decision of the referee a just...
...cannot interest the students. Wieland's works cannot be compared with those of Lessing, Goethe, and Schiller. Goethe's Faust was read in this course last year and proved to be uninteresting and too hard for the students; why take up Wieland's Oberon, a work even harder to understand? Why make the student read works containing forms no longer in use, when he is not familiar with modern forms of speech? The majority of students expect to make some practical use of their German and do not wish to read German for its literature only...
...defender of Lacrosse further says that in seniority that game ranks next to base ball and football. We do not understand how this argument is powerful, except in showing that Lacrosse has had the opportunity to gain a firm foothold in College, but has failed, and has in fact been eclipsed by cricket, though the latter is the newer sport. Had Lacrosse been able to obtain a high position in the estimation of our students, by common consent it would have had a field allotted to its use, and would have received pecuniary support, which is the willing and necessary...
FROM the remarks made by Captain Hammond at the Boat Club meeting we understand that very few of last year's University Crew intend to continue rowing. We regret to learn this, as our chances of victory, which seemed so good after the race last July, are now in precisely the same position as in the fall of '80. It is the duty of every man who is in any way fit for the University, and who is not prevented from rowing by some insuperable obstacle, to begin training at once and thus to aid our captain in the formation...
...prevented from attending recitations on account of sickness, on his return asked the instructor to tell him the amount of work done by the class in his absence. The instructor declined in a way that, impolite in itself, was rendered doubly so by his peevish manner. An instructor must understand that it lies entirely with himself to gain the respect and to excite the interest of his scholars; the one is an unfailing companion of the other. If he fail to do either, the teacher must blame himself, and should not so far forget himself as to vent...