Word: far
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...disagreeable weather Saturday disappointed many who were anxious to see the 'varsity-freshman game. The season is so far advanced that the work of both teams is watched with keen interest...
...religious meetings held in Holden on Sunday evenings for the past few weeks have been so well attended as to attract the attention not only of those directly connected with the university, but of others who know Harvard only by name and reputation. Some papers go so far as to head their reports with, "Revival at Harvard," a heading which hardly corresponds to the state of feeling that exists here, if to "revival" we must give the common newspaper meaning. Still on the part of many members of the college greater interest in matters of a religious character has been...
...granting that the two systems are equally good so far as quality goes, the spirit of instruction must be taken into account. The discipline and instruction of sectarian schools is likely to develop men prejudiced in favor of particular church dogmas and creeds. Said a seminarian, who had always attended the schools of his church, in discussing evolution with a gentleman who seemed open to the doctrine, "What, do you want it proved true?" Too often the life of the teachers in parochial schools is so wrapped up in their profession that the education they impart fits...
...far our form of government has succeeded so well, because nationalities and sects have yielded to a certain extent in matters of peculiar customs and belief. If the church segregates its children from the rest of the community, if it causes them to regard this government as protestant and themselves as strangers in a strange land, if it keeps social classes from mingling where is most opportunity for mingling, it destroys one of the safeguards of the republic...
...professors, the finest museums, and the largest library; but if we do not employ these advantages, our boast is vain. We have all heard time and time again of the slight mental strength gained, by passively taking our facts and ideas through the handy medium of a lecture. As far as real drill goes, listening to lectures affects our minds about as watching other men pull chest weights affects our bodies. As the office of the director of the gymnasium is to show us the apparatus which is for our own use, so the duty of our professors...