Word: actually
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...exchanges, the Kansas University Review has broken forth in poetry to the extent of fourteen pages, two columns to a page. By actual measurement, that makes twenty-eight feet...
...absolute equality of studies different in kind, and then, as a natural consequence, the infallibility of per cents as a common measure of knowledge of these different studies. Both these assumptions are so plainly absurd and inconsistent with our theory of education, and the unjust character of their actual operation is so well known, that I will not stop here to prove the inadequacy of our present system of marking and ranking. But the very absurdity of the system will serve to point out the way to reform...
...beginning of this review the Nation says: "If the Johns Hopkins University had no other reason of existence, its publications in this department would entitle it to national honor, while its actual achievements are only a foretaste of future possibilities. The men who are most competent to investigate our political history are not always willing or able to incur the cost of publications for which there is but a limited demand...
True to his word, upon the completion of his American lecture tour he left every cent that he had received, above his actual expenses (about $13,000 in all) in the hands of three trustees. These gentlemen were to spend the income from this sum in giving deserving and intelligent students "the higher opportunities of scientific culture available in European universities...
...preservation of all variety in talent, ability, etc. Inheritance is opposed, as giving the rich an unfair advantage, as giving the rich an unfair advantage, encouraging quarrels, and idleness, and vice. Let every man have what he earns, no more. Society should not be based on money, but on actual labor, whether mental or physical. Land, labor and capital, being differently apportioned, result in an exchange, which is controlled in the interests of the few. Also competition is a foe of the socialistic...