Word: follows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...comes that men are often more led to complain of than rejoice in the freedom of selection allowed them. For, where there is no guide or support, but each is left to his own responsibility, those who would be most eager for liberty of choice if they had to follow an iron-bound course, often become clamorous for direction when this liberty is granted them. The Johns Hopkins University solves the difficulty in the case by assigning to each student "some member of the academic staff, to whom he will go for advice and assistance, and through whom he will...
Prof. C. A. Young of Princeton, is giving a two weeks' course of lectures at Mt. Holyoke Seminary. Prof. R. H. Mather, of Amherst, will follow with a series on "Ancient Sculpture...
...doing the English" it is to be hoped that all tendency to follow the examples of Oxford and Cambridge, by university systems, will be resisted at Harvard. Those are not the examples for a progressive American university to follow. The German university system, with its academic freedom - freedom on the part of the instructors to teach how and as they please; freedom on the part of the students to learn what best suits them - furnishes rather the model for Harvard to follow. Indeed, the tendencies of Harvard are in this direction, and we believe the time is not so very...
...worked up among the freshmen, and the hearty support of several upper classmen, whose judgment in boating matters has considerable weight, is already assured. They have expressed themselves as favorable to the fitting out of a crew. And all the university are beginning to realize the disgrace which would follow the abandonment of the boating interests at such a time as this. . . . . There are many and powerful reasons why we should equip a freshman crew this year, and not a university crew...
...well for me in this initial letter to follow the example of your correspondent from Brown, and say a word in regard to the societies here...