Word: evens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...should like to ask the University authorities, through your columns, the following questions: Since Thursday was not even a partial holiday in the University, why was the gymnasium closed in the evening, and why was the Office closed during its regular hours...
...nobles; the other of the people. Gradually as the connexion with Frence grew weaker and at last ceased altogether, and the realm of England began to develop itself under its single kings, the languages began to commingle and to take the direction which has ended in the present English. Even without the Conquest something similar, though not identical, would have taken place, for the Saxon was rapidly changing and would have ended, what with the processes incident to all living languages, and the introduction of Latin at the revival of learning, in something nearer to modern English than...
...thoroughly, since so much of the work fell upon a few; and yet, for the first time, the nine as a whole showed that it could gather itself together and play a creditable game. The immense difficulties which have had to be met this year make even a creditable game by the nine something worthy of no little praise...
...another way, this move of the Prospect Union concerns Harvard men even more closely. The enlarged quarters will be accompanied by an increased need of teachers from the University, and there ought to be no lack of response to this need. Organized with only forty charter members, it has grown, within less than four years, so as to have more than six hundred members. By it a class of people are interested in education whom it would be impossible to reach as effectually in any other manner, and in whom any interest in such matters is commonly despaired...
Scientific training is of ethical value in some indirect way, but of greatest value in the direct way that it teaches us to look at things in an objective way, that is, to eliminate our personal equation. This is of great importance in science, but of even more and of far greater difficulty in the domain of conduct, for this latter is the study of our relations with our fellow men. In the domain of conduct we must, not as in science, have first ideas and conform to them acts and facts. Such ideas are meant as those instinctive...