Word: followed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...from studies which conduce to general culture, and devoted to professional studies. The students who intend to make the law their profession form a large portion of every class, and to these an elective in law would of course be very acceptable; while even to those who intend to follow mercantile pursuits an elementary knowledge of law would be of great, value...
...having questioned the desirableness of college prayer-meetings, a writer in the University Magazine comes forward to defend them. He thinks that moral and intellectual improvement should walk hand in hand, and that without prayer-meetings intellect will run away from morals, in which case disaster will of course follow. In proof of this he alleges the following startling example...
...interest and an annual payment of $1,000 on the debt to the Corporation. This debt was, on September 1, 1875, $47,219.75, which has since been decreased by a gift from Q. A. Shaw, Esq., of $1,000. It is to be wished that other gentlemen would follow his example, for the payments on the debt amounted last year to about $3,900. The change of the title of the College Steward to the "Bursar," which has been thought an affectation, was made in order to distinguish that officer from the steward of the Dining-Hall...
...writer in the Advocate also accuses me of identifying "culture with superficial knowledge," and of affirming that "youthful indifference is necessary to the development of the best professional mind." It is most perplexing for the ordinary mind to attempt to follow the deep process of reasoning by which this truly "astounding" result was attained. To say that superficial knowledge, extended to all subjects, becomes culture, is correct, - otherwise, no one could be cultured, for no one can be an universal specialist - but when from this premise the conclusion is reached that "culture is superficial knowledge," the enthymeme of our critic...
This project of erecting class windows is one in which great interest ought to be felt; but it is doubtful if a general interest in the subject will ever be awakened before a window is actually placed in the hall, which shall act as an example for others to follow. If this work is to be undertaken by a class in college, there is no one better able to take the initiatory steps, nor one by which it could be better done, than by the class...