Word: axioms
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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From the full experience of Harvard students, an axiom has been established in our university, which is as firmly founded as an axiom of English. It has taken the Shakesperian form, "All's well that ends Wellesley...
...worked out upon each man's honor, and which are to count considerable in the year's work, has much to commend it to every earnest student. That an examination, written in a very limited time, is no test of one's knowledge or scholarship, is almost an axiom. This is especially true in mathematics where much of the work is original, and where it is perfectly possible for a man who has a firm grasp of the subject to be balked at the beginning by a simple problem. Examinations may, and doubtless do, have their advantages, but the idea...
...true state of any matter of college administration or of student interest. "Let them remember," cries the Times to the students, "that as it is not every novel that a girl can safely put into the hands of her mother, so it is not every proposition that is an axiom to the experienced undergraduate which is intuitively apprehended by a green and gray professor. It is exasperating to be told that you must not learn athletics of an athlete, and that the faculty is liable to recommend to you, as an instructor in that department, a most worthy Christian gentleman...
...women for possessing this higher culture, and says in reply to his question: "Now it must be admitted that a college can do harm and that culture may be a bad thing. Not a true college or a noble culture, mind you. But it has become an axiom among philosophers that the finer a thing is the more vile is its corruption. So then if culture be but a carping and inactive criticism, in the nature of a chronic and irremediable disease that sees the world only through jaundiced eyes, and if a college produce this culture, it is unutterably...
...Sargeant says a man is shorter at night than in the morning. This is hardly an axiom, as it depends entirely upon who treats. - [Lehigh Burr...