Word: far
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Prof. Bartlett of Dartmouth has so far recovered from the effects of his broken arm that he conducts the daily chapel services...
...cups. By all means, then, let your correspondent's suggestions receive the encouragement they deserve. Not, I mean, by the college authorities only, but by our own selves. We must even bear in mind that by so much as our own power is increased in any direction, so far is the power of the whole university in that direction made greater...
...what that character should be. Yale tries to give men to the world. Harvard tries to give an institution to men to give them a place where they can develop themselves and work out their own character. Harvard's principle recognizes more fully the differences in men. It has far larger possibilities and is based on a great confidence in human nature...
...university, hope is cherished on every side that her curriculum will prove the reality and truth of her claim to a broader field of work than is possible for a college as such. Her methods may now without shame to her children, embrace teaching that is distinctively "university" so far as that term comprehends an advance over the old-time collegiate instruction. The instruction which lays down rules now long proved to be false in spirit and practice, must pass to give place to a wiser teaching. To Yale, as to all other institutions which, in turning their backs upon...
...errors of overstatement; and any influence over them would be lessened thereby. There was sanity in moderation in the use of intoxicants as much as in the total abstinence from them. He did not want it understood that he advocated moderation in the place of total abstinence. Far from it But we could not be blind to the fact that many people, who were by no means degraded, used it. He spoke at length of the tendency of science and of society to-day toward the total disuse of liquor. He then said that in college the probable cause...