Word: conductive
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...took occasion to say recently, the pity of the students for the ignorance of the professors in regard to athletics, was altogether too strongly tinctured with contempt. The counsel of a dyspeptic professor on the conduct of undergraduate sports is calculated to excite the derision and despite of the sporting undergraduate. The professor is the disinterested observer of Lucretius, who, from the shore, inspects the great labor of another in the vaist of the boat, or who cushions the top rail of a fence, and from that tranquil eminence looks out from under an umbrella, and through spectacles probably green...
Harvard Philosophical Club. Certain Ideals of Right Conduct and their value for Society. Dr. Royce. Sever...
Three years ago Amherst College made a set of rules founded on the principle that each student was received as a gentleman and would be expelled whenever his conduct proved that he was not. Pres. Seelye says it is the unquestioned judgment of the faculty that there has been a great gain in regularity of attendance and standard of scholarship. No punishments are prescribed. The misbehaving student is not sent away nor even shut out of the recitation rooms, but no attention whatever is paid...
...MONDAY.Harvard Philosophical Club. Certain Ideals of Right Conduct and their Value for Society. Dr. Royce, Sever...
...lecture "Political Science as a study in Universities." He began by explaining the distinction between political science and political economy. The latter, he said, deals with employment, capital, wages, currency, and tariff questions; but the former confines itself to the universal suffrage, forms of government, and the conduct of government. Political science is of a very recent date, and is better known in England than anywhere else. The history of France is very interesting in this respect, showing the continual progress towards government by the people. Our constitutional history is entirely confined to the making of constitutions, and there...