Word: consultive
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...required, it is presumably a fact that the Faculty deem them important elements in a gentleman's education. They, therefore, ought to take pains to insure to every graduate more than a mere smattering. Everybody allows that such instructors as are appointed to have charge of these studies should consult the ability of the class under their care; that not so much a large amount of space as thoroughness of knowledge must be aimed at. Now, for an instructor to do what he readily will admit ought to be done, the instruction must be adapted to the average student...
...says this precocious writer, "that in many cases Hannibal - like students possess sufficient common-sense, but, by force of circumstances, fail in exercising it. To such men a college course is narrowing, instead of being expansive, and making them truly vicarious." As friends, we should advise the author to consult the Dictionary before he uses "vicarious" again, and moreover to read Emerson's Essay on "Domestic Life," pp. 108, 109, before he again makes dogmatic assertions...
...honesty to render a fair equivalent for their money to the business men of Boston and Cambridge. Those who prepared the Advertiser's Tabular View at the beginning of each half-year were able, no doubt, to influence the advertisers without deception. They said that the students had to consult these tables two or three times a day for at least a week after the beginning of each term, and therefore they were tacked up in every room and remained there the year through; and suggested that by the use of small type, enamel, red and bronze inks, a Tabular...
Those who at present are busy over the Constitution of the United States will find it greatly to their advantage to consult the former of these essays, for many interesting questions are there started. "Is it the violation of any law laid down in the Constitution, is it an element of Insurrection or of Invasion, for a man to place in the ballot-box a vote for whatever candidate he may choose?" Also, "If the militia is called into active service by the President, without the authority of Congress, is this anything but the assumption of Imperial power?" Unfortunately...