Word: furtherence
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Every mind and every body has its maximum of energy; up to this point one can go with impunity, but to attempt further advance is to fail. As the machine lasts in proportion to the use or abuse of it, and as its power depends partly upon the care taken...
AT the meeting in Boston of the Social Science Association, last Wednesday, there was an exciting discussion concerning the Higher Education of Women, in which President Eliot was severely attacked for not opening Harvard College to women. The advocates of reform rely chiefly on theoretical and abstract reasons. They say...
THE Magenta does feel "immensely honored" by the favorable opinion of the Vassar Miscellany. Three months we have been waiting to read their comments; many times we have repented permitting any one to criticise their taste or their wisdom. But the editors are forgiving; they return good for evil. The...
THE Madisonensis contains one of those crude articles on Education and Common Sense, a kind with which the college press is much burdened. Two columns are devoted to a wholesale condemnation of the hard student. The author labors under the impression that well-trained, well-educated men are not wanted...
The President in his Report mentions the fact that some of the Middle and Western States contain schools which prepare boys very successfully for admission here. The substance of this part of the Report has certainly been stated in an unfair manner by the writer in the Courant. The President...