Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...wholly unconnected with our frequent revolutions. On the one hand, our primary instruction is too much neglected. Thousands of voters know not how to read or write. On the other, our secondary instruction is too aristocratic. It should only be the privilege of a small number, and not the common rule for all. Moreover, this instruction draws too exclusively on antique sources. It presents us with the society of antiquity in its most flourishing condition. Sparta, Athens, Rome, are shown us as ideal republics. Now it is well known how false the ideas of antiquity were upon what...
...common with the Yale Record, the Yale Courant, and the Advocate, we have failed to meet the approval of the Cornell Times. We suppose there is nothing left for us all but death. The Times, certainly, has plenty of bodies to mangle. It reminds us of the darkey's explanation of the miracle. "Why," said he, "five thousand loaves and seven thousand fishes were divided among the twelve Apostles. Miracle was, they did n't bust!" Though, to be sure, it is rather blasphemous to compare the twelve Apostles with the Editors of the Cornell Times...
...manner an advance toward acquaintance should be made by our instructors. We are well aware that, for many reasons, any general system of receptions is impracticable to them, and even if possible, might become tedious and unproductive of the desired result. But there is one ground which should be common to both parties, now occupied almost entirely by the students; we refer to the College press. That this idea is not a new one is proved by the occasional contributions we receive from members of the Faculty, one of which we are glad to publish in another column; but that...
...body composed of the wisest men in the country. Colleges, however, have a power almost as great as that of the legislatures, although it has not yet been fully exercised. Instruction might be given every year on political economy and kindred subjects, which would make its principles almost as common and as well known to the voters of the country as the changes of the moon are. To exercise this power seems to be not only a privilege but the duty of every college...
...which men may come as for a matter of business, to obtain instruction on one subject or another, staying and going at their own sweet wills, and paying accordingly. If the Elective System or any other influence should ever bring it about that all which Harvard graduates have in common is a date of the reception of a degree, and perhaps not even that, then Class-Day must die as a matter of course; but until that unhappy day comes, let us do anything in our power to preserve an anniversary which has always signified to Harvard friends all that...