Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...course of study is consequently left to a great extent to be selected by each student for himself, there is no provision for any instruction for the purpose of enabling us to make an intelligent choice. In order to make such a choice it is particularly important to have clear ideas of the manner in which all knowledge is divided or classified, and of the value and applications of the different branches, together with the general character of each, and their mutual relations. For the want of such knowledge the student is often left almost entirely in the dark...
...eminent men of the present day, are totally incorrect. Bratt's philosophy is severe and often times difficult to comprehend, but here and there we find traces of a masterly conception of the greatest truths of Nature, a marked ability to conjoin the finite with the infinite, and a clear and penetrating insight into the mysteries of creation...
Their round is clear...
...student who is called upon to write is scarcely better off than the one who "cuts," for the former is to all intents and purposes absent. If the course is history, and the family name of some nobleman is given which without doubt is very necessary to a clear understanding of English politics, he is too absorbed in his writing to hear it, and thus that important fact is lost...
...which most persons find in collecting their ideas when distracted by the continual and irrelevant chattering of one who stands almost directly at their side. If they have a thorough knowledge of the question before them, very few possess sufficient power of abstraction to give, when thus disturbed, a clear and succinct answer. Some of the details always escape them; and when they are assured that their rank for the year will depend mainly upon these written recitations, they cannot but feel that it is unjust to compel them to write under circumstances so unfavorable for testing their knowledge...