Word: branching
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...would not make much difference. Those who were foolish enough to choose such a study could wait eight or ten weeks well enough; or they could drop the study when they became tired of waiting, and grind up a little back work in some other branch. It would do them good, both by inculcating the habit of industry and by illustrating the terrible uncertainty of human expectations...
...growth and greatness of the Museum of Comparative Zoology must be a source of gratification to all lovers of Natural History. Students intending to devote the greater part of their lives to this branch of knowledge need no longer go to Europe with the expectation of finding better facilities to aid them in their investigations. In the course of his remarks last week to those who had elected studies at the Museum, Professor Agassiz said that twenty-six years ago there was not a single specimen, with which to illustrate a lecture, possessed by the Institution, which now offers better...
...which have appeared in such myriad numbers upon the elms in the College Yard. These trees, in which we justly take so much pride, are being stripped of their verdure, and by Class Day, instead of their usually abundant foliage, they will present nothing but withered leaves and barren branches. A lack of shade, should that day be a sultry one, together with worms swinging from every branch, liable at any moment to find a temporary lodgement on the passer-by, will prove a serious barrier to the usual promenading indulged in then...
...study in college, or upon any particular part of it, - either as relating to its usefulness or to the manner in which it is taught, - has to be stated in very general terms; if it is not so put, if anything specific is pointed out, the instructors in that branch are apt to feel that the criticism arises from personal dislike rather than from any existing fault. I most certainly wish to avoid making any such impression, and because I definitely point out the course to which I refer, and endeavor plainly to present my objections to the method...
...less of Latin and Greek than the average college curriculum; yet there are those of acknowledged ability who claim that the discipline of the Classics is overrated, that it is no more adapted to the fullest development of every mind than is the discipline derived from any other single branch of study: hence they would institute the elective course. Absurd. They cannot have read Walker, who would teach the pedlers and peasants Latin and Greek; or Stuart and Jones, whose arguments will convince any man that there is more discipline in the study of the particle yap than...