Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been bequeathed to the University of Pennsylvania by the will of the late Henry Seybert to establish a chair in mental and moral philosophy...
...comes from the free, natural, useful play of noble faculties; and that is what we get at Cambridge. The university, as an institution, enjoys that supreme happiness." Reference was then made to the valuable work done by the ten Harvard clubs in various cities of the country. The recent establishment of scholarships in the college by the New York Club was alluded to and its action praised. "But," continued President Eliot, "there are certain dangers about pecuniary aid. The nation is going into the business, I see, of pecuniary aid to indigent States. Now, I have learned from my slight...
...inspiration - will be a success, will draw to itself the frequency of youth, the patronage of wealth, the consensus of all the good. Nothing is so fatal to inspiration as excessive legislation. It creates two parties, the governors and the governed, with efforts mutually opposed; the governors seeking to establish an artificial order, the governed bent on maintaining their natural liberty. Professors should not be responsible for the manners of students beyond the legitimate operation of their personal influence. Academic jurisdiction should have no criminal code, should inflict no penalty but that of expulsion, and that only...
...proposed at Yale to adopt the Harvard custom and establish for each graduating class a permanent class fund...
...widening of its area of usefulness since he entered upon his office, and called attention to the fact that there had been no addition to the mental, moral and political sciences. "It would be a great stroke of wisdom," he said, "for the friends of the college to establish a School of Philosophy equal or superior to any in the country...