Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...public school system, advanced a theory of education which would involve as its purpose continued self-education after the years of schooling. It is true that this theory ought fundamentally to occupy the minds of our educators, but where such a theory, if rigidly carried into practice in the common school system might from circumstances prove inefficient, it assumes an enlarged significance when applied to a collegiate education. Many college courses have no end in view beyond charging the mind of the student with a mass of facts more or less interesting and useful, but undeniably lacking in the element...
...points out emphatically the new field which Harvard and other colleges are making attractive to young men. Many political questions must arise for decision in the next few decades. The journalists and the politicians who have had the advantages of a careful, economic training, provided they still retain their common sense, will hold peculiar power over the future of great national interests. This outlook should encourage both professor and student to make the courses in Political Economy forward and vital...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - It is the common experience of undergraduates in our larger colleges, and especially in Harvard, that, as soon as they find themselves outside of their college and among so-called practical men, they are taken to task by these men for the one-sided teaching of the college in the matter of Free Trade and Protection. The "business man" of to-day generally boasts that since his education comes from the world, his opinions on these subjects are far ahead of the mere theories of college professors. The opinions thus obtained, it is fair...
...James Russell Lowell, in his hours of ease smokes a common clay pipe, although he offers to his guests the finest Havana cigars. The practice is quite common in England and Scotland, where, however, the clay is much softer and more porous than that usually found in pipes sold in this country, - Harpers Weekly...
...James's Gazette says that tennis elbow is a common complaint, like scribbler's palsy. Skilled sufferers say that it lasts a year or two. It is an exaggerated lame elbow from tennis playing...