Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...though drawn in rough and plain lines and not pretending to scientific exactness, does yet give a fairly true representation of the matter. Human nature is built up by these powers; we have the need for them all. This is evident enough, and the friends of physical science will admit it. But perhaps they may not have sufficiently observed another thing: namely, that these powers just mentioned are not isolated, but there is in the generality of mankind a perpetual tendency to relate them one to another divers ways. With one such way of relating them I am particularly concerned...
...points into consideration, an article in a late number of the Miscellany strikes us as being very important, shedding as it does, new light on a very old subject-the higher education of women. That there were objections to being a "higher educated" woman, we were always ready to admit, but how important these objections are we never comprehended until we read the article in question. The article which we consider such an important contribution to the literature of the subject has the seemingly innocent title "jottings from the journal of an A. B." But instead of this article being...
...will be generally admitted, we suppose, that America has not as yet a distinctively literary class such as England and France possess. But that she has a number of men-of-letters will hardly be denied even by those who refuse to admit that there is a literature which can be characterized as peculiarly American. The relative merits of this body of men-of-letters as compared with a similar body of English or French writers is a question that we can hardly be expected to discuss. A correspondent of the Critic asks why America should not have an institution...
...West, to obtain certain facts about college newspaper men, I learned from him that of the past Tribune staff whom he remembered, eleven were college men, and of the present staff, the business manager and eight others are college graduates. That certainly is a good showing,-though I must admit, sad as it may seem, that Yale sent more men to the Tribune than any other college, not even excepting Harvard. Of course, it is true that many of these newspaper men hold only subordinate places; in fact, I know of one friend of mine, who has attained a great...
...only when in the arrogance of half-knowledge, he attempts judgments only open to the specialist. Every man to a certain extent must be a smatterer. It may be necessary to lessen the preponderance of time given to the classics in a liberal education. This many are ready to admit. But that the common ground of studies prior to the college course should be altogether broken up, that all educated men are to be marked out as specialists even from their cradles, is a thing hard to receive...