Word: committed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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When Edward Everett was President, he was accustomed to address the students in reproof, but, instead of having the desired effect, his ideas were so eloquent, that men would commit faults merely to lead him on to speak to them...
...examination marks are a test of the pupil's proficiency. This is seldom correct. They are a test of his verbal memory and physical endurance. So wide is the range of study required now even in primary schools that nothing more can be done by the pupil than to commit the text-books to memory; to learn as it were the alphabet, the dictionary, of each science, in the vain hope that in after life he may learn to comprehend it, to speak the language. Without entering upon the vexed question of the higher education for women, we may illustrate...
...cafe he is sure to be at some brasserie. The brasseries can be described briefly as cafes of the lowest character. Then, again, there is the masked ball, where the students congregate Thursday and Saturday nights - not only to make fools of themselves but to commit the grossest excesses. Refinement seems to be banished by common consent from the Latin Quartier, and to one who has determined to reside there a year it becomes long before the year is up a most loathsome and disgusting place. If an American graduate, he soon begins to sigh for home. If a Harvard...
...French Senate yesterday M. Waddington declared that the republic was threatened by nobody, and had nothing to fear except the faults it might itself commit...
...Beacon, published by students of Boston University, inquires: "What did President Eliot mean by saying, I am glad that Boston University is open to both sexes? Does he or does he not believe in co-education? In his speech Tuesday evening he was careful to commit himself on neither side, and seemed greatly relieved when he had finished...