Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fears that Professor Ladd expresses as to the results of the New Education, to one who is not predisposed to feel them, seem groundless. Is there a greater smattering and shallowness of study under the elective than under the prescribed system? The adherants of the latter have claimed again and again that the elective system tended, not to give a man a smattering knowledge of many subjects, but to make him one-sided by leading them into specialties. The causes for the change from the old to the new, have been fears, nay even realizations, of shallowness, of knowledge gained...
...Classical Studies at Athens, has just issued his annual report. It is addressed to the Council of Archaeological Institute of America. The death of Prof. Lewis R. Packard, of Yale, one of the Directors of the School, has crippled the management. Referring to him Prof. White writes: "The Committee feel keenly the loss that classical studies have sustained in the death at middle age of a man in whom were united in happy adjustment such thoroughness of training, high scholarship, independence of opinion, and ready and sympathetic appreciation...
...that body of students laughed a little, as if it were a joke. It was an illustration of what I have been just now pointing out, the slow growth of moral sentiment. There really is nothing so important for you, for young men of this time, as to feel that the civil service reform is a moral cause; one, therefore, which demands of every youth his support, and concerning which there cannot be two sides in the thoughts and feelings of enlightened rational and moral men. There may be, of course, difference of judgment in regard to specific measures...
...columns of the Monthly are open to all, and the sine qua non is only literary excellence. If those who are dissatisfied with the dark stamp of the contents of the Monthly, will express more hopeful views in an attractive form, and with the requisite literary merit, we feel sure their productions will meet with an impartial judgment...
...amount to nearly forty thousand dollars. He has been the liberal benefactor of Bowdoin College and of numerous charitable associations. He has stood between many worthy persons in various conditions of life and utter want and despair, and has tided over hard passages in life not a few who feel indebted to him for ultimate success and prosperity. Nor has he been generous in money alone, but in personal service, in the hospitality of his house, and in gifts chosen with equal delicacy for the feelings and regard for the needs of the recipient. Indeed, the considerate courtesy which...