Word: acquaint
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...turn from the instructors who keep us in what seems to be unnecessary suspense, and contemplate those whose marking system is a mystery to all but themselves, we are tempted to remonstrate once again. And when, in addition, we think upon the course of those who refuse to acquaint us with our marks at all, we feel sure that this final growl on our part is pardonable. We would recommend that the College press be still more chary of its praise, if the adulation of a three-line editorial has such a disastrous effect...
...made their report. While they find the College generally in a satisfactory and improving condition, changes are suggested in almost all the departments. In the department of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, although "the young men are stimulated to think for themselves upon controverted points, and care is taken to acquaint them with the objections which must be met before satisfactory conclusions can be reached," the result often unsettles conviction and produces "a sceptical turn of mind which is the more hopeless because it thinks itself rational and scientific." In Philosophy 3, the Critique of Judgment is recommended in place...
...will find that about nine tenths of the fellows that you meet have limited their ambition for the last few years by the entrance examinations. When those are once passed, they see no reason for further exertion; and they are so anxious to acquaint themselves with the new phase of existence which they erroneously term life, that they find no time for anything else. Their college work is sure to be neglected. Their half-stupid, half-mischievous, wholly careless behavior in the recitation-rooms is sure to exasperate their tutors to the point of numerous warnings...
...Greek and Roman history. At the end of the sixth year the student is in condition to translate Cicero and Virgil, Xenophon and Plutarch. Then follow the classes of Rhetoric and Philosophy, without doubt the two most interesting and profitable. In view of their importance, I beg leave to acquaint you with some details of the course of study in these last years, - details all the more necessary to be understood, inasmuch as the examination for the baccalaureat deals principally with the matter taught during this period...
...radius of a few miles from the College there is abundant material to engage for a long time the earnest attention of the antiquarian, and subjects, too, in which every one interested in the history of his own country should take a just pride. Yet the number who acquaint themselves with these things by observation as well as reading is small. Every year many students, to spend their long vacation, hurry off to Europe, are dazzled and delighted by the brilliancy of its splendid capitals, and come back with bad French and worse German, but have never visited either Lexington...