Word: branches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...heartless conduct of his nearest relations, and by that premature deafness which shut him out from all the world of musical sound. Several interesting anecdotes were given of his eccentric habits. In his works he carried the art of music to its highest perfection, excelling in every branch. In orchestral music, especially, he holds absolute pre-eminence. The idea, however, that Beethoven had worked out the view of purely instrumental music, tacitly acknowledging, in fitting words to his 9th Symphony, that a higher form uniting words and music was henceforth to be supreme, an idea advanced by several late writers...
...accomplishment in a curriculum of studies, adjusted with due reference to difficulty and labor." He goes further with regard to the classics in claiming that "classical proficiency may be distinguished in a degree, as excellence in science, in medicine, in divinity, in philosophy, or in any other particular branch, is now distinguished." This is comparatively a new view of the classical dispute. Aside from the much contested point as to the value of the peculiar character of the intellectual training to be derived from classical study, it is a very sensible view. Mr. Curtis claims that classical training...
...strange too, that where full courses in Roman Law, and an excellent treatment of Anglo-Saxon Law are given, that this important branch of the development of law should be omitted. Besides, the college owes a duty to men preparing for the Law School where a knowledge of Blackstone is presumed, but for which the college inconsistently does not provide...
...more thorough knowledge of human nature than during his college life. Business wants all the men it can get equipped in just this way. Special training is of course required after graduation, but the college man has acquired the ability to learn better and more quickly a particular branch of trade than a non-graduate, and is usually much more efficient after he has learned it. One trouble is, that in estimating college graduates, business men, as well as some others, are apt to pick out, as a standard, the few cheap characters which every college sends out, and which...
...favorable comment among undergraduates in regard to this action of the Union, and the opportunity of hearing our President is looked forward to with great expectancy. The duties of the executive head of this university are so manifold that he could not be expected to conduct courses in some branch of learning, as is the custom with the presidents of almost all other American colleges, but that he has not hitherto taken occasion to come in contact with the students in some way, seems rather strange. Co-operation between students and faculty is one of the striking phases...