Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...this time the tendency has been for the universities to set certain standards and to expect of secondary schools that they should fit students to these. That is, there has been an ideal of university education to which everything else was to be only preparatory. It is building from the top downwards...
...National Educational Association, July 9, 1892. The result was that a committee of ten men was appointed with authority to investigate exhaustively the subject of secondary school education in the United States, and the admissions to colleges. The committee was to appoint sub-committees or conferences to investigate certain subjects and report at a specified time to the committee. The committee was composed of the heads of schools, colleges and universities throughout the country, with President Eliot as chairman. The committee appointed nine conferences, each consisting of ten men, to investigate the following subjects; 1, Latin; 2, Greek; 3, English...
...foundation of a Bolles Scholarship, however, would seem to anyone who knew the specific nature of Mr. Bolles's interest in moneyless students, emphatically inappropriate. Scholarships (without entering the vexatious question of their use and abuse) undoubtedly stand as prizes, open to a certain class of fellows previously trained to enter a competition as definite in its rules and qualifications as those met by a record-breaking athlete. Not every athlete wins a cup in his first contest. Neither does every promising fellow win a scholarship. Neither the very rich man nor the very poor is in the contest...
...call attention to the meeting of the Harvard Religious Union to be held in Holden Chapel this evening. Professor C. R. Lanman will address the meeting on certain points connected with Buddha and Buddhism, with special reference to what Buddha was, what was his nature and what were his views. The Union hopes that in spite of the mid-year examinations this meeting may be well attended. The subject on which Professor Lanman will speak, though not widely known about in college, is interesting and worthy of attention...
Lecture. Certain Art Fads-impressionism, realism, etc. Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith. Sanders Theatre...