Word: enjoy
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...continually tempted to complain that the faculty fail to give us one advantage and another which the students of other colleges enjoy. It is, therefore, particularly pleasant to occasionally congratulate ourselves on the points in which we are more favored than others. Most of us take the reading room very much of course, and hardly think to thank the powers that be for the pleasure and profit we derive from it, or realize that even such a well equipped college as Harvard has no such institution. A recent editorial in one of the Harvard papers laments that "While Yale...
...machinist, the joiner, the furniture maker, the stonecutter, is no longer remote. One of the highest college-bred men of the present time is Prof. Huxley, and one of the strongest advocates of college and university training for all whose opportunities and means will permit them to enjoy it. He counts himself, and actually is, pre-eminently a handicraftsman whose life is mainly spent in his workshop, and his writings and addresses are what he learns from his own work. As civilization generally has advanced, so that society has been willing to accord a true value to mechanical pursuits...
...poor, and live as if you were poor, in Germany. The military and civil officers who form the flower of German society are poorly paid, and, not only make no attempt at display, but look on display or luxury as vulgar. They get the consideration which they enjoy, not from their means, but from their position. The possession or acquisition of money is, therefore, not a sign of social success. A man's wife and children are not troubled by his not possessing it. Some of the most highly placed and respected men in the community live no better than...
...other members. A student who takes advantage of the Co-operative Society is taking advantage of his fellow students. The fees for membership are so small and the gain so great that no student has any excuse for refusing to join the association, in case he wishes to enjoy its advantages...
...advantages of the elective system as deduced from both theory and practice, says the New York Times, may be briefly summarized as follows: To the man whose object is general raining, who wants an education only that he may enjoy its broadening influences, the elective system opposes no obstacle; the required system is, if efficiently carried out, equally valuable to this class, but it is not more so. But to that much larger class who want an education to train them for some special calling, or who have a special fondness for some one line of study, the elective system...