Word: careful
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...were given in Parker Memorial Hall, Boston, on Friday evening and Saturday afternoon, May 15 and 16. The bill on Friday evening consisted of the comedy of the "Babes in the Woods," followed by the farce of "Taming a Tiger." The performance of the "Babes in the Woods" showed care and attention on the part of the actors, but seemed unable to excite as much interest in the audience as could have been desired by those who wished well of the undertaking. The fault was decidedly more in the play than in the acting. The plot is extremely uninteresting...
...sallow-faced Chronicle has reached us with the latest news from the Western University. In an able article on "The Facts in Full Light," the, "recent rumpus" is explained with critical care. The great fault seems to be that hazing is a fine art at Michigan, and the press has seen fit to throw round a little sport a background of mysterious horror. "That the Faculty should repeatedly say, 'Rely upon your own judgment,' and then should submit us to that character of discipline which belongs to the preparatory department, smacks strongly of inconsistency." The students at Michigan overrate their...
...drawn from the neck with care...
...what are the causes? They lie deep. In the first place these children are brought up in a manner contrary to nature. Up to the age of fourteen or fifteen, a child cannot do without the care and affection of home. Here, on the contrary, he is deprived of all affection. The tender care which his age demands fails him altogether. He is treated with rigor, even intimidation. He is addressed like a slave or a culprit. He is surrounded by repressive influences. The scholars are too numerous to be governed without a severe and inflexible discipline, too numerous...
...hear from them." We don't think there is many, but if there WAS, we would send a few to Cornell to lighten the darkness which oppresses them. After reading the above it will be hard to reconcile the following statement of the same paper with any ability or care in instruction on the part of Cornell's teachers in rhetoric and themes. It says that more attention is paid to literary training at Cornell than at any other college in the country; the work of the Harvard Sophomore year being performed in their Freshman, that of the Junior...