Word: america
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...second great demand of the age, and it is one which grows out of the first, is the demand for the optimist. There is enough in the American life today to encourage pessimism. People say America is not the place for scholars and gentlemen, but they do not read the signs of the times. A man who begins his university life today begins with much crudity, but every healthy man ought to be glad that his life begins today...
...Philip S. Moxom said on behalf of the board of preachers that it was with pleasure and diffidence that he brought their greeting at the beginning of the year. It is true today that the hope of America in politics as well as in religion is in its youth; in those who are getting moulded into noble form...
...hoped that officers of administration and instruction,- in fact, all persons interested in the development of graduate study in America-will also find its pages interesting and valuable...
...reader is asked to bear in mind that the editors have not sought to include all graduate courses offered in America, nor attempted to give details as to give details as to the courses herein presented. In the first place, the intention has been to omit all purely professional work. In the next place, the Handbook has been and is a growth. The edition of 1893 included eleven institutions, while this includes twenty-one, and future issues may be gradually enlarged in scope. For all details the reader is referred to the full announcements published by the several colleges...
...among the first, and has been one of the most influential, in the effort to reform the system of legal teaching as practiced in the Inns of Court, and has more than once made public acknowledgement of the debt which England owes in this respect to the example of America, and of the Harvard Law School in particular...