Word: correct
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This last statement will, we hope, correct much misapprehension in regard to Harvard. Many think that if Greek is no longer to be required, it will take less study to get in here. But they forget that the man who does not learn Greek will have to pass at least as severe if not severer examinations in subjects equally hard. This process of raising the requirements must sooner or later have a very beneficial effect upon our common school system. The higher our colleges are, the better will be our academies and high schools...
...reports are correct, the Yale faculty has shown a very petty spirit in regard to the proposed lectures on protection, which Professor Thompson, of the University of Pennsylvania, is delivering at New Haven. It seems that these lectures are to be given at the request of some of the students who are interested in tariff discussions. The report having spread abroad that Professor Thompson would lecture at the invitation of the faculty, that worthy body hastened to correct the mistake, and disclaimed any official connection with the eloquent advocate of protective tariffs. "Yale still stands by Professor Sumner...
...question that should be asked in deciding this matter is not "What should I like to do?" but "What ought I to do?" In answering this question we have but to glance at our degrees of success in the different things we have undertaken in our lives, and a correct conclusion is pretty sure to be reached. Even if we have been really successful in nothing, there must be something in which we have proved more competent than in the rest. Perfect success is not necessarily the criterion. And if there seems to be no hope of that success...
...this country had been forgotten. But to quote again, "Professor Laughlin has grouped together all the scattered material of our own history, and nearly all that is useful from the history of other nations, to equip those who desire to enlist in the fight on the side of correct principles of finance. The arrangement of statistics regarding the production and coinage of gold and silver is especially valuable, presenting in graphic form the yield of the mines in each of the periods in the world's history marked by any unusual increase of one or the other metal, and also...
...plebs, as we might say, to obtain information about the progress of the teams, - "not even enough to base a sensible bet on," says the Courant moodily. If the bets alluded to were those made by Yale men last spring, we must allow that the Courant is quite correct, - and adversity probably will bring circumspection with it. However, the fact remains that Yale men were kept in the dark themselves about the possibilities of their teams, and not only was the public often made to believe that a Yale team was weak, when in reality it was strong...