Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...during the examination period) instead of the present month, which is one-seventh of the college year. There is only one more point that I desire to speak of I learned long ago to refrain from mixing sneering personalities with arguments. A student who protests fairly and moderately against certain usage may be "childish" and 'absorbed in self" and have "poor brains," but you ought to refrain from dragging the poor fellow out and disclosing his deficiencies. I looked to you to keep these fralities a secret from the public, who might never have discovered them from my communication...
...passed an act which changes the name of the college to Columbia College and placed it under the control of a body entitled the "Regents of the University of New York." On the 13th of April, 1787 the State Legislature repealed the act of 1784, reviewed and confirmed, with certain necessary alterations, the royal charter of 1754, decreed, "that the college thereby established shall be henceforth called Columbia College" and placed it in charge of trustees...
...ought to think previously how they are drifting, before they make their election of courses; for they frequently lose all track of their previous education, their previous convictions, and their previous manner of thinking, by dabbling in the pleasant but deceptive waters of philosophy and art. It is a certain fact that only one man in thirty has a fine philosophical mind; and like the "little learning" which is so dangerous, a smattering of philosophical cant develops a sophistical way of thinking and reasoning that is often absolutely destructive to high purposes. How many of the amateur philosophers and nineteenth...
...course, in whatever matter the examination paper is prepared, we all know the subjects well enough to meet the demands upon our intelligence (and our imagination as well sometimes); but every student has a sympathy with certain parts of his work, and takes more interest in those parts than in others. He would perfer always to dilate upon these favorite topics. Under the old system it was as Cicero would say "bull-luck" whether he had a chance or not. Under the new regime he can show himself to better advantage...
Every collegiate degree given twenty-five years ago claimed to represent a certain amount of knowledge, and indicated roughly the chief sources of that knowledge. The Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Philosophy had studied little or no Greek, more rarely no Latin. In no case did the degree claim to represent even a minimum of culture. In this sense all degrees were and always will be more or less indefinite. But let us not mix up two things that are so easily kept separate, and which ought to be so kept. All experience proves that now and then...