Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...somewhat unfortunate innovation, which obliges the professor to pass judgment on events in which sometimes he has himself played a part, or at least taken sides, and that, too, in a country so often shaken and its government overturned by successive revolutions. In this year philosophy is begun. Certain of the Greek, Latin, and French philosophers are read, - Seneca, Cicero, Plato, Xenophon, Descartes, Pascal, Fenelon, Bossuet. These authors are analyzed and philosophical dissertations made thereon...
...lyceums, and two hundred and fifty colleges, situated, the former in the principal places of the departements, the latter in the principal places of the arondissements. Besides these public institutions there are also schools founded and governed by individuals, either secular or under church influence; so that in a certain sense it cannot be denied that liberty of instruction exists in France. Any individual of good record who has attained a certain rank at the University can obtain permission to open a school and obtain pupils. But, on the other hand, this liberty is fettered to such a degree that...
...more. The competition of the state destroys private enterprise. The state has at its disposition large resources, because it can draw on the purses of tax-payers. It can have installations more magnificent, and consequently professors more capable than the private individual, who cannot risk but a certain part of his capital Nor is this all. You can, it is true, teach whatever you choose in these private schools, but the University courses are directed by the government. You are forced to follow the plan of study fixed upon for the examinations for your baccalaureat. The University alone confers...
...most strongly recommended, or those whose ideas are most conformable to his own. These professors - modest men, a truly honorable body - thus find themselves, in some sort, public functionaries. In 1852, after the coup d'etat of December, they were required to swear allegiance to the Empire. Certain of them, either because they had already sworn allegiance to the Republic, or because their sense of justice and morality was shocked by an illegal act, refused to swear allegiance to a government sprung from a violation of law, and were removed from their positions without any regard to their past services...
...second toast was, "The Class of '76," to which Mr. R. W. Curtis responded. Mr. Curtis's peculiar province had been, to a certain extent, invaded by Mr. Botume; but he brought out several new points of interest in regard to boating and ball matters, concluding with a touching allusion to the Cricket Club, which, he remarked, had played one or two games during the year, "with more or less success...