Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fill space in the paper by speaking of a subject about which he is so poorly informed. He says: "Now that foot-ball has been, at least for a time, laid by," etc., and then complains because the lacrosse men do not step in and fill up this gap in the circle of sports. The fact is that foot-ball has not been laid aside even for a time, as the gentleman would easily see if he took the trouble to stroll out to Jarvis Field any afternoon. There are as many men actively engaged in playing foot-ball...
...each class pass through college without electing it. This is not only an indication of the importance of the subject which the course treats of, but it is also a testimonial to the merits of the instructor. Dr. Hart's absence, therefore, will cause a serious gap in the college instruction. We hope that he will not have to remain away beyond the end of the year...
...which the university saw fit to call him at the inception of a Scientific department. For more than thirty years he has filled the position with credit to himself and the university. Few, indeed, can show a record of longer service faithfully performed. Another leader has fallen, another gap been made in the ranks of those whom the university and its students have been accustomed to depend on and look up to respectively as the educational forces of Cambridge...
...absence of a course of instruction in the History of Political Theories forms a serious gap in the curriculum at Harvard. As has been shown by the article in these columns describing the several schools of Political Science, there is exactly such a course at Michigan University, at Columbia, and at Johns Hopkins. If one has time to read at length in the original Greek the Republic of Plato in Greek, and can take Philosophy 5, in which, among other things, Locke's theories of government are expounded, one can gain some knowledge of this subject, but only...
...gap in this sort of work at Harvard has been somewhat filled in recent years by the efforts of some of the college societies; but these efforts have been limited necessarily. To secure any lecture, even those given as a matter of courtesy, involves considerable expense upon the society under whose auspices the lecture is given-an expense which often prevents lectures from being arranged which might not only be of practical value as a means of instruction, but might also be of intrinsic value in themselves, for the advancement of knowledge. Thus were it not for such considerations...