Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ignoring the sound of a language. In fact it was a reasoning system, one that was largely made up of grammar and "trot" and that did not teach a man to distinguish the subtle differences in measure and order by his ear (an organ which seldom errs) but by complex rules, committed to memory with much labor and easily forgotten. In the English colleges of a few centuries ago, it was an ordinary circumstance to carry on a conversation in Latin, and the control which an average student had over the language was astonishing. When, for example, we remember...
...read standard authors whose words are as alive today as when uttered many hundred years ago, and that all the time and trouble spent over the elements of Greek and Latin may not be thrown aside as waste. The plea that this election will make a man's course complex and that he will get a broken knowledge of many subjects is some what strained. True, a little training in any subject is a dangerous thing, but when the modern languages and English studies follow after a solid foundation of the very learning on which the above studies are built...
...this change we come before our readers this morning as the DAILY CRIMSON. Several reasons have led us to make this alteration ; the fact that the CRIMSON is an older name, and on that account one more firmly connected with the college and its institutions, than the somewhat complex title we have been bearing ; the fact that crimson is the college color, and the agreement, based on reasons such as the foregoing, that was entered into when the two papers, the Herald and the Crimson were consolidated...
...study and recitation rooms, and, plain and sombre as they may be, are fine examples of useful architecture. This is the keynote of all criticisms on our new buildings. It was quite possible for Mr. Richardson, the architect of Sever and Austin Halls, to have erected pretentious structures, complex with designs, overloaded with ornamentation and bewildering in turrets and corners; yet with a true artistic instinct he has accomplished a happy mean between a brick box of four sides and a palace. Mrs. Van Rensselaer says of the new Medical School building, that "the task was to build a great...
COLUMBIA.The marking system of Columbia College is not complex; the maximum mark is 100 per cent. in the college and school of mines. The minimum or passing mark for freshmen and sophomores is 50 per cent.; for juniors and seniors, 60 per cent. The honor classes are made up of students whose standing for the four years has been above 80 per cent. First class those having total mark 95-100 per cent. Second class, those having a total mark of 90-95 per cent. Third class, those having a total mark of 80-90 per cent...