Word: evenness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...education, and neglect, to a great extent, the preparation of students, if they have any, for college. It is a remarkable fact, however, that when a country school sends one man, say in a decade, to college, he almost invariably obtains and maintains a high place in his class, even if entering under a full card of conditions. Exceptions occur, and yet perhaps the larger part of the leading fifth of most classes are from schools of no general reputation. The reason for this lies in the fault of many of the most popular schools in the country. Too many...
...rest, nothing good can be said, and the feeling of disappointment that arises on looking at these pictures of the Montpensier collection can hardly be dissipated by a careful study of even the best of them...
...dispersion. Are we better off than our forefathers of four thousand years ago? Before answering this question, Professor Everett seeks to remove certain prejudices. One of these is the natural belief that all is for the best, from which proceeds, especially in youth, an enthusiastic trust in progress; but, even retaining a faith in optimism, might we not reasonably suppose that, by a system of compensations, the world is always at its best? Is it not by blindly applying a principle of final causes that we look on all other centuries only as the preparation for our own? That this...
From the consideration of life we pass to that of thought. Of the unsatisfactoriness of our knowledge even now, Goethe and Herbert Spencer testify, exclaiming with Faust...
...this unfortunate arrangement is due the disastrous result of the race. Could Harvard and Yale have been separated by even a single place, it is probable a fair test of superiority might have been obtained. The four crews between whom the race really lay - Columbia, Harvard, Yale, Wesleyan - soon after the start drew ahead, and the order named was that of the first mile and a half. Harvard had been steadily drawing up on Columbia, until, at the mile and a half point, she had lapped the Columbia boat. According to the account of our crew, Yale, who had meanwhile...