Word: aid
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...carefully nurtures, that we wish to speak. It is absolutely certain, as things are here at present, that certain men will be absent from as many recitations as they dare, and will do little if any work on their courses up to the time for examination. Then with the aid of tutos and a few days of hard "cramming," they will acquire enough of the leading matter of the subjects in hand to pass the lest prescribed, and be permitted to go along in the same manner until the next examination time when the process is repeated. Such a state...
...necessary to win the game. Mr. J. H. McIntosh, '84, opened for the negative. He drew an elaborate simile between the government of a state and the government of a faculty, and said that athletics were out of the control of the faculty, whose only duty was to aid the university in the promotion of its one aim-science. Mr. E. L. Conandt, '84, in approving the action of the faculty showed how the river and Jarvis field, which should be for the use of all, had been given up to a few men, and said that athletics had extended...
...latest improvement in bicycle manufacture is the kerosencycle. It is like the tricycle, but the propelling power is obtained by an engine located under the seat, in which a pressure is generated by the aid of kerosene oil and compressed...
...country where the wealthy and hence the cultured class is as yet so small compared with the bulk of the population, the question of practical education will never rest. The main object looked at in a new country is the acquisition of wealth, and any education which will not aid in the gaining of that object is looked upon as worthless. The idea of education for its own sake, or for the culture which it brings with it, has not as yet gained a hold upon the American people, although this charge would be denied with great indignation. The institutions...
...become great without any such preliminary course of education, as our history shows, but it will be in spite of such a lack and not because of it. Statesmanship is a trade to be learned as much as any other, and a liberal education cannot help being a great aid in mastering...