Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...merits of a location in a city and one in a small town. He combats the idea that a university needs quiet and removal from the excitements and activities of a throng by saying "that as this is a practical age, and as the object of education is to fit young men for the duties and responsibilities of practical life, the greatest advantages exist in a large town. "The very atmosphere inspires with the restlessness and activity and practical force which reach their highest development in such a city as New York. On every side there is contact with that...
...July Century will print several hitherto unpublished letters of Emerson, written not long after he left college. In one he expresses the opinion that Greek authors should be read in the original, which he afterwards saw fit to change...
...capacity of the abnormally gifted or toughest student. Now the fact is that the mass of pupils in any school are not particularly clever nor physically strong. But they, too, have their place to fill in the world; and if they work faithfully at school to fit themselves to fill it, it is unjust and cruel to turn them out into it at the beginning of their career with a sense of defeat because Nature did not endow them as highly as a few of their brethren. The Tribune has called the attention of colleges and teachers to this increasing...
...Pennsylvania has at the end of the sophomore year the choice of three distinct fields: He may continue in the regular academic course; he may study for a diploma in science or in the special line of mechanical or civil engineering, or he may in the school of finance fit himself for business life. In this last course the studies include political economy, constitutional law, mercantile law and practice, the history and laws of finance, legislation and administration, and the theory and practice of accounting, as well as general literature, history and modern languages...
...favor the governor's reelection and to injure the college. But we fancy that the governor's vote will not be increased nor the college hurt to any appreciable extent by the act of yesterday. Nobody ever supposed that the authorities of Harvard College regarded his excellency as a fit man for governor, and they certainly deserve credit rather than denunciation for expressing their minds. - [Advertiser...