Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...from my purpose to attempt in any way to throw a wet blanket upon such an assured success as the Cooperative Association, but I should like to ask if the conduct of the gentlemen was not a little premature, who assembled a few nights ago to discuss "informally" (so it was understood) the prospects of the scheme. Officers were elected to an association which did not then exist. The audience who had gathered seemed unable to comprehend this, despite the laudable efforts of one or two gentleman who seemed desirous to impress upon them the previousness...
...objects very smartly because we say "to the manner born," instead of "to the manor born" (we suppose). "Such is culture," it says. The Era is, we fear, a little too previous. We do not care to discuss questions of Shakespearean text-interpretations in these columns, and we will only refer the Era to the discussions of the best critics on this matter, and it will see that we have plenty of justification (besides all common sense, etc.,) to sustain us in this reading...
...value of a college education, and particularly its practical and money value, notwithstanding its satisfactory attestation by the world for so many centuries, seems still to furnish an interesting and debatable question for a large number of estimable people, and especially for Americans, to consider and discuss. It will be perhaps impossible ever to entirely free the public mind of a vague prejudice that a college education for a business man is most often a detriment and a waste of time. The indefinite expectations placed in all graduates by other men, and the unreasonable demands made of them in return...
...system of study, a one-hour lecture be held on the matter contained in some one of the best New York morning papers, in place of the ordinary recitations. The News editor maintains that as a good newspaper is the best common educator known, with a competent man to discuss the various topics in the paper, no better training in the science of government and foreign policy, and in modern and contemporaneous history and literature could possibly be obtained. He also holds that such a course of lectures would make the students more practical and independent in after life than...
...EDITORS OF THE HERALD: I wish to bring up again in your columns that old, musty, and well-worn subject, "Memorial Hall." I do not care to discuss the "price of board at Memorial," for it makes very little difference to me whether it is $4 per week, or $6, for my bills are sent home to be settled by my paternal parent. But I would like to ask a few questions concerning the quality of the board, and the manner in which it is served. Why is it that when a person orders toast, for instance, he cannot have...