Word: constantions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...business man. We need, quite as much as professional men, the help and discipline which study alone can give. All buying and selling to get gain is debasing in its tendency, and especially so in this great city, where every year completion becomes keener and more pitiless. Only constant effort will enable a man to continue his reading and to keep his mind and tastes in such cultivation that he will find in such cultivation that he will find himself en rapport with men of letters. It is too often the case that nothing but a bank account distinguishes...
...court martial to investigate the hazing at the Naval Academy has been ordered. It will be proven that there has been constant hazing at the academy...
...gratifying to see that the broad policy inaugurated at Harvard some years ago and the constant fostering and enlargement of the elective system, with its wider range and greater attractions, are bearing such good fruit. That this broad policy should win over a large school, formerly averse to the simple mention of the word Harvard, and induce the instructors to change to more liberal methods of instruction augurs well for the popular hold which the Harvard elective system is acquiring among students in general...
...separate department, it has really exerted less influence than our courses in Fine Arts under Professors Norton and Moore. The influence of these courses upon the Lampoon has been considerable,-some of the men who have studied in the regular courses making the best illustrators and showing constant improvement due to their training. Nor is this influence exercised solely upon the artists of the illustrated paper. The many other men who take these courses become better acquainted with what is good in these bi-weekly issues, and they are less likely to commend poor work, thus stimulating the student artists...
...constant possibility of war in the countries of Europe renders military training compulsory, and a term of service in the army is as necessary as a common school education. This is the more noticeable to us, as the United States having no warlike neighbors and being protected by vast oceans, requires no military discipline in her schools and colleges. The great strength of Germany is entirely due to this system; the result is that a knowledge of military tactics is general. In France the training schools are so arranged that comparatively few attain high rank and proficiency in the army...