Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting held in St. Louis on Saturday last to discuss the question of compulsory education, letters were read from Presidents Eliot, McCosh and Porter. Presidents Eliot and McCosh both favored compulsory attendance at schools, which view was also taken by President Porter, who said that he took it for granted that the only reason why the State is justified in taxing all its citizens for the support of public schools is that it may promote its true well-being, and perhaps defend itself from irreparable disaster; and that if this is to be assumed, then it is equally clear that...
...those who refuse to admit that there is a literature which can be characterized as peculiarly American. The relative merits of this body of men-of-letters as compared with a similar body of English or French writers is a question that we can hardly be expected to discuss. A correspondent of the Critic asks why America should not have an institution similar to the French academy. He feels sure that America has forty living literary men who are worthy of being classed among the "immortals," and calls upon the Critic to constitute itself a ballot box for the election...
...general council of athletes at New York. For, although the faculty may not be able to guide the faculties of other colleges into the system of regulations which were inaugurated by them, the students of this university can add much useful knowledge and ability to any convention called to discuss this matter. Harvard has always been the first or among the first to adopt any kind of athletic game or contest suitable for student recreation and, at present, her range of such sports is much larger than is enjoyed at most of the colleges in this country. After such...
JUNIOR THEMES.Mr. Wendell will meet all sections (advanced and regular) in Sever 11, on Tuesday, March 18, at 2 o'clock, to discuss the subject of theme...
...much for examples of approximations to the ideal. Now what can be done by individuals to help towards the attainment of the ideal? After a few suggestions about the training of personal character for the benefit of society, the lecturer went on to discuss the social tendencies that help and that hinder the realization of this organic ideal. Conservatism, the lecturer thought, is often a direct help to progress, because conservatism insists that progress shall be rationally comprehensible, and so organized. Conservatism represents the tendency to think new experiences in old forms, and so to continue definite habits of thought...