Word: consideration
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...quite as likely that a book marked excellent would receive but eighty-four, if marks were assigned in percentage, as that the case suggested by "Inquirer" should occur. The chances that two instructors would differ on the question of marking a giving book "good" or "excellent," are considerably less than the probability that they would differ in regard to the propriety of giving eighty-four or eighty...
In reference to college journalism an exchange advances the statements that students like to criticise, that faculties dislike to be criticised, and as a result that a college paper cannot give satisfaction both to students and faculty at the same time. These statements, although obviously so foolish, are worth notice...
University life fosters individual peculiarities. Any large centre of learning will gather about it both the learned and the unlearned, the ordinary and the peculiar. And almost every type of goodness, evil, and indifference will characterize the student life. Every university or college possesses proofs of this. But Harvard is...
The Varsity, of the University of Toronto, says in its editorials, that "it is the glory of Canada and the United States that the people are proud of their colleges, and feel and acknowledge that a benign influence emanates from them." In this respect institutions of learning in the new...
Much as national characteristics enter into the philosophic thought of a country, yet it seems to be a new idea, and one must say a remarkable one, to thus absolutely lay down the philosophy which should be the guide of an American. Simply because a man is an American he...