Word: elements
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...strangely distorted pronunciation," in my opinion richly deserve condemnation. A man may not be less patriotic when he elects to ape our English cousins in dress and mode of speech, though he certainly puts himself in the ranks of those who would introduce a ridiculed but yet dangerous element in our society life. He is unpatriotic when he voices the sentiment that "Americans have grown wise and prosperous by adopting the ideas and customs of other nations"; for to say this is to slight those principles which every true American loves to think of as the cause of his country...
...beginning of our study we find an element that must make the work of the western editor totally different from that of his eastern brother. Without a consideration of this element it would be impossible for us in any way to account for the striking differences between the college journals of east and west. Reference is had to co-education. While the fair sex is always an important addition to the different walks of life, it is especially important when considered in connection with college journalism. Women at college mean a much wider field for the work of the college...
...school system might from circumstances prove inefficient, it assumes an enlarged significance when applied to a collegiate education. Many college courses have no end in view beyond charging the mind of the student with a mass of facts more or less interesting and useful, but undeniably lacking in the element of brain culture. The proper building of a brain is still a subject of discussion. But that the system of education in vogue among the colleges throughout the land is highly defective, is proved by the success of the reforms inaugurated by Harvard, which declare as their basis the determination...
...profit to himself and to give it to others; the double motive is the only complete motive. Beyond doubt in this fact we find the strongest argument for the establishment of what we may call intellectual societies, societies devoted to study and mutual improvement. Such societies cast aside the element of selfishness, and recognize and advance the element of generosity, of intellectual democracy, and the men who faithfully support them are helping themselves, and are helping also to improve and elevate the intellectual life of this college. Only the movements by associations, by clubs and societies, can really make...
...education. But it is not until very recently that the comparatively new science of political economy has received from educators the attention which it deserves. It is due largely to the energy of one of our own instructors that the study of economics has come into prominence as an element in the panoply of a student. During the past two years Professor Laughlin has delivered lectures and written magazine articles on this subject, and the interest which they excited warranted him to publish the substance of his thought in permanent form, and the result is a little book, entitled...