Word: far
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Procedure." At present some twenty men from the college are attending these lectures, and they find them interesting as well as instructive. It often happens that a man will submit to much more abuse from another than his inclination would allow were he not in ignorance of how far the law will permit him to go in redressing his wrongs...
...failure of the United States in not having a true university or the true university spirit, which is seen in England and Germany, has become a topic which is of the greatest concern to all those who are interested in educational matters. As far advanced as Harvard may be, if viewed in the light of the many preparatory schools which are called colleges, we are still further distanced by the great university systems which exist abroad. The following clipping from a correspondent in the New York Nation throws additional light upon the subject...
...necessary in order that a university may live and thrive. We need the ambition that would go beyond the studies required for practical purposes, that would go beyond the bread-and-butter studies. And to produce and foster such an ambition, it seems to me, is not by far so difficult as seems to be generally supposed. Let us imagine that we had a National Scientific Association, composed of the foremost scientists in the country, and that this association had a fund from which it could offer prizes for original scientific research. The honor itself of gaining such a prize...
...Farrington, '86; S. Farrington, '88; Stevenson, '88; and Woodruff, '89. Peters has positively refused to sit in the boat again, and Paton has not yet appeared at the boat house. Captain Cowles finds the optional system a serious drawback to his getting the men out together and thus far not very satisfactory results have been attained. - Post...
...religious observance renders the effect nugatory, and at the same time tends to prevent that spontaneity of motive for a religious life which alone is productive of good. The discussion in regard to compulsory prayers that has been carried on in the papers of the day, as far as reason is concerned, has been of but one tenor. The compulsory element has been shown to be inconsistent with Harvard's stand on other matters, and of very doubtful policy. To these arguments, those who uphold the present order have simply replied that compulsory prayers are, must be, and have been...