Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...marked the observance of commencement day at the university were no longer to be tolerated within the college precincts, has made a commotion among the alumni scarcely less profound than that occasioned by the action of the overseers in refusing to confer an honorary degree on Governor Butler. The exact meaning of this semi-official utterance was not fully understood at first, but the plain English of it was taken to be that the flowing bowls of punch and other mellowing refreshments which the various classes have been accustomed, more majorum, to provide for their entertainment on commencement day, were...
...themselves. It used to be said that the college stood the student 'in loco parentis.'" The speaker did not accept this theory, inasmuch as there are various kinds of parents, and it was impossible from the very nature of the case that any college instructor would take the exact place of any, even the best parent. So, too, at Harvard the theory of what may be called "mechanical repression," such as prevails at military and naval schools, is not maintained. The student, without the pressure of a system of rigid rules, is taught self-respect and self-control. There...
...greater import than even the introduction of the elective system, with all its wide-spreading results. Any changes that might follow will of course be very gradual, but for that reason will be all the more far-reaching. Harvard thus far has represented one type of college life, the exact opposite of which is represented by such an institution as the University of Michigan. The difference between the two types is expressed very inadequately by saying that at the one student life and ways of thinking have acquired certain common characteristics from the mere fact of the dormitory system, while...
...himself the task of proving that an opinion generally entertained upon both sides of the Atlantic during all past time is entirely erroneous" and so on. Space would not permit (if inclination would) an extended review of this forty-page volume. As an instance of the exact position the reviewer holds, the following quotation may be taken: "How long," he laments, "how long will Harvard and Yale insist upon being the sleepy hollows of political economy, from which pupils emerge with ideas that have been obsolete for a century?" It is needless to remark that the italics are not those...
...with the practical workings of our national institutions and prove equally intolerant with those of the extreme protectionists. As one of the Cooper Institute speakers says, "they do this without reflecting that those theories are constructed from a British standpoint." And, too, "they assume that political economy is an exact science, applying alike to all countries and situations; when, as a matter of fact, it is a relative science, and must be accommodated to the circumstances and conditions of the country...