Word: distant
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...instructors to teach how and as they please; freedom on the part of the students to learn what best suits them - furnishes rather the model for Harvard to follow. Indeed, the tendencies of Harvard are in this direction, and we believe the time is not so very far distant when the students of Harvard will be treated as men and not as school-boys, and when the instructors will be relieved from the irksome police and schoolmaster duty now required of them, and left free to devote their entire attention to acquiring and imparting the best knowledge of their respective...
...secret is they had their rise in the days of arbitrary college government; they were revolts against over-rigid discipline, and having become deeprooted traditions, and also maintained by the savage impulses that still linger in human nature, are hard to abolish. But the day is not far distant when college ruffianism will become extinct. The remedy is in the new order of college government, or rather non-government. Alma mater is laying down the office of policeman, and when young students are treated just as other members of society who transgress the law, the main incentive to college outlawry...
...education at Harvard. It is decidedly not our purpose to discuss here the merits or demerits of the much-argued question, but we think that we but express the opinion of the majority of the university when we declare the wish that the day is far, far distant when real co-education will be countenanced by the authorities of the university. We can assure our exchanges that the annex is not the "female part of the college," as one paper puts it, but merely an institution of women who receive instruction from certain professors who are connected with the university...
...large majority of the students preferring languages, metaphysics, history, and political science, to mathematics, physics, zoology, and botany. Every extension of the system has been a gain to the individual student, to the college, and to every interest of education and learning; and the time is not far distant when the few subjects still prescribed for all students will in their turn become elective...
Meanwhile Tue had been lucky in her escape. The noise that Ching made in crashing through the bushes had warned her of his whereabouts; and she had only to keep out of his path. She hurried on for more than a mile, when the distant roar of the ocean called her to herself; she looked around her, and saw the sun setting, and the forest unfamiliar...