Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...keep the student better informed of the working of the hall is a good move. The complaint that has been so often made that the system in yogue there is one whose workings are dark and beyond the comprehension of ordinary mortals will now be hushed. With everything made clear, there is no reason why the hall should not prosper even more than before. The idea of improving the lunches will meet with approval from all the boarders. Hitherto the lunches have been considered the weakest part of the bill of fare. That the board of directors have given their...
...very extended and liberal course by a large faculty. The system followed is that of "election by terms." By this method the average student is less likely to become a mere literary grazer than he would be were he, at the commencement of his sophomore year, without any clear idea either of what he ought, or of what he would desire, to study, brought face to face with a broad and unrestricted course extending over three years, and told to pick and choose. The accommodations, however, for those desiring to pursue special courses, or to pursue the regular...
...poverty is a good one, will some one tell me why a college education is not better? The expensive crimes to a community are what may be termed crimes of intelligence; not murder and beastliness, but forgery and burglary on sound chemical, mechanical, and scientific principles. It is a clear proposition of republican government that the greater the number of the inhabitants who are intellectually cultivated the greater the safety of the State. I believe that promotion should be not the reward of industry merely but of capacity. For entrance to the colleges there should be evidence of natural competence...
...that "the rush and hurry of our modern activity needs the infusion of a calmer spirit and of steadier thoughts. Its rash and eager generalizations and its exaggerated statements need strong and steady thinkers who were trained in the school of severe definitions and sharp conceptions and steady and clear-eyed good sense. The extravagant oratory, the sensational declamation, the encumbered poetry, the transcendental philosophy, the romantic fiction, the agnostic atheism, the pessimistic dilettanteism, to which modern speculation, and modern science and modern poetry tend, need now and then a "season of calm weather," such as a dialogue of Plato...
...list as certain to send representatives. Unquestionably a great deal of good might be accomplished by an organization of this kind. Marked differences of opinion now prevail as to methods in teaching the modern languages. If uniformity be wholly an impossible thing, as it probably is, it remains clear that the present multitude of systems could be advantage easily blended and reduced. [Times...