Word: failings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...readers have noticed the reports in the Boston papers of President Eliot's recent address before the Unitarian Club on the subject, "Secularization of Education not a Rational End." In this address President Eliot said, "I cannot but think that the policy of secularization, if thoroughly executed, would fail to preserve the public schools, as schools, for well nigh the whole population - which they should be. I cannot but think that the secularization of education is not a rational end to pursue." James Freeman Clarke, on the other hand, who spoke on the same theme before the same society, said...
...great good to many. Under right conditions such a service may raise our standard of thinking and living. It may be made to turn our thoughts, from the almost unavoidable sordidness around us, to the higher, and finer things of life. That the so-called daily prayers at Harvard fail in this purpose, is too true. They stimulate few or none toward better actions. The failure, however, is merely because they are not prayers. They are an attempt to unite the worship of God with a police regulation. Such a confusion of acts of devotion with affairs of ordinary college...
...that he has a really poetic conception, it is well for him to try to express himself in metre. But he should be chary about giving such a production to the public; for few are true poets, and he may not be of the few. College students more often fail through feebleness of thought rather than of expression. Their sentiments frequently turn out to be flat, and puny copies of what has been much better said. Yet, if we have not the highest forms of inspiration, we can make light and graceful verse from the light and graceful fancies which...
...Reward. The above reward will be paid to any person that may bring a garment to my Tailoring Department stained, and I fail to remove it. Mr. John Rogers, whose ability as a first-class cutter needs no comment, has charge of the tailoring department, the only place in Cambridge where the original Blenheim 4 Button Cutaway, Sack and Jalva Sleeve Overcoat can be got up. Pants a specialty. J. F. Noera, 436 Harvard Street...
...Reward. The above reward will be paid to any person that may bring a garment to my Tailoring Department stained, and I fail to remove it. Mr. John Rogers, whose ability as a first-class cutter needs no comment, has charge of the tailoring department, the only place in Cambridge where the original Blenheim 4 Button Cutaway, Sack and Jalva Sleeve Overcoat can be got up. Pants a specialty. J. F. Noera, 436 Harvard Street...