Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Cercle Francais has made arrangements for obtaining a room in Hollis or Stoughton, next year, which it will occupy in common with Der Verein. The society is in a very flourishing condition; has subscribed to several Continental newspapers; and has already founded a library, which consists of nearly a hundred volumes. It is hoped that, by the liberality of the members, this number will rapidly increase. Mr. F. J. Stimson has been elected librarian...
...School, gave a number of suggestions of value to those intending to enter that profession. We can notice but a few of the leading ones. In referring to the necessary qualifications of those intending to become lawyers, he said, "His position implies fair natural powers, trained intellect, good common-sense, habits of thought and reflection, diligence of research and preparation, strict integrity and honorable purpose." Such is the foundation for one who would be a successful lawyer. The prevailing idea that success is measured by the amount of fame a lawyer obtains was by no means favored, and, continuing...
...year should not be greatly diminished, the next Senior Class might expect to have the same privilege. We think that two considerations have been overlooked. In the first place, the experiment will be tried next year under peculiarly unfavorable auspices, simply because it is an experiment. The reaction so common under all similar circumstances, when any restraint is first removed, will probably take place, and the students will probably be very generally irregular in their attendance, while, as is well known to all, the members of each class are powerfully influenced by the advice and traditions they receive from their...
Thus you perceive that the programme of secondary instruction is the same for all France. Before, however, making you acquainted with this programme, let me first point out one peculiarity. In your country there is a natural transition from the common schools to the high schools, and from these last to the colleges. Scholars who wish to make their course complete, generally follow through the grades of these schools. They rise, insensibly, by examinations, from the primary school to college. With us there is nothing similar. Primary instruction is enclosed within an impassable barrier. The scholar who goes...
...writer seems to think that trees "from some forest primeval," if transplanted to the burying-ground to-morrow, would give the same pleasure to the citizens of Boston as the Paddock Elms did. I very much doubt it. Would an elm transplanted from Boston Common give as much pleasure to the people of Cambridge as the Washington Elm does? Suppose that Massachusetts were to be pulled down and sold for old bricks, would another aged brick building, if moved to its place, inspire us with the same interest and affection which we now feel towards that venerable pile...