Word: detail
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...maximum mark on the work of each half-year, in each study. It is a rule, which, to persons outside, will seem reasonable enough, but which, in College, has caused much dissatisfaction to the best, as well as to the worst, of scholars. To point out, in detail, its evil effects, would take more space than we can give in this column. We only wish to say here, that we have made careful inquiries concerning the intended working of the law; that we have been told by one of the authorities that a man who had forty-nine per cent...
...Emerson's "Letters and Social Aims," recently published, in which the writer casts reflections on our author's age, insinuating that he detects signs of weakness and loss of pristine vigor; and after finding fault with the titles and subject-matter of these essays, he proceeds to detail to us some gratuitous information about Omar Khayyam, alias Chiam, whom he thinks Mr. Emerson has failed to treat with proper deference and appreciation. In spite of his specious remarks on Khayyam, appearances tend to prove that either our reviewer had a very slight acquaintance with Persian poets, or, happening to stumble...
...should I detail the various shameful scenes which disgraced this voyage? Does not Virgil...
...have received a copy of an article in the School Bulletin, in which Mr. J. H. Allen, so well known as a scholar, has taken the trouble to reply in detail to the criticisms which Mr. D. T. Reilley, said to be of Rutgers College, made on a little book of Mr. Allen's called the "Latin Primer," and designed to "teach little children the elements of Latin as a living and flexible tongue, by familiar use in actual narrative and dialogue." Our readers may remember that we have already published an article which showed the unfairness of Mr. Reilley...
...Here, then, is the gain of History, that in this age, "by the combination and utilization of our results, a fulness of life is possible that was never possible before." Agassiz and Sumner stand as examples of men who have recognized the ideal element even in the multitude of details put into their hands, and whose lives have thus become more large and full than was possible in any other age. Agassiz, the child of both continents, who found the objects of his study wherever life exists, still saw the world guided and sustained by a loving God; Sumner, familiar...