Word: forme
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...merely a truism to assert that any charitable mechanism, when it gets well to work, is sure to furnish results that were little anticipated. A system of eleemosynary scholarships, advertised as a conspicuous part of a college scheme, will form no exception to this proposition. A class of facts, easily obtained, may appear to testify to its unalloyed beneficence; but other facts, lying below the surface, and from their nature not susceptible of documentary proof, suggest that its advantages are accompanied with decided drawbacks...
...fully appreciate the difficulty attendant upon a judicious choice of questions for an examination, but certainly a very little forethought would have prevented a Professor from giving a paper which will doubtless be very imposing in pamphlet form, but which is utterly valueless as a test of the thoroughness of the work done...
...also true that there are evils in the world outside. Such evils as we have here we had better face boldly; there is nothing gained by keeping them out of sight. But it is a crime to parade them before the public in a sensational and grossly exaggerated form, and the offence is augmented by the fact that the authors are themselves students at Harvard, and as such should be above misrepresenting...
...many parents from exposing their financial condition to the authorities of Harvard College, and causes them to object to have the fact of their pecuniary embarrassment solemnly proclaimed in the Catalogue. The competitive conditions of business and professional life make such expositions simply impossible. The clergy, to be sure, form an exception to this rule as to many others. A country minister, who has a thousand dollars a year and six children, will have no hesitation in stating these facts. In his sacred calling poverty is always honorable, and the salary received is a matter of record and general notoriety...
...Distinction between Human Reason and the Instinct of Brutes" was more interesting than would be expected from the nature of the subject; yet those very qualities which made it interesting detracted from its merit as an essay; it contained too many illustrations and anecdotes. On the other hand, its form was too scientific for the general reader, and its theory was too palpably modelled after that of Mr. Herbert Spencer to leave it one spark of originality. Yet the essay showed a wide knowledge of the subject, was well arranged and written, and as a whole made a good impression...