Word: german
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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SOME four hundred new German books have been received at the Library. A case of English books is expected in a few days...
...report of Dean Gurney shows that 164 students were conditioned last year; also that of the 318 candidates for the last Freshman Class, 294 presented French, forty-one per cent of whom failed, and 24 German of whom twenty-one per cent failed; showing that men trusted too much to a general knowledge of French. 7 Freshmen anticipated Latin, 8 Greek, 9 German, and 10 a whole or part of Mathematics, taking in their place electives in Latin, Greek. Mathematics, German, French, Italian, Spanish, History, Music, and Natural History. Voluntary attendance at recitations is most ingeniously and elaborately discussed, every...
...evil. I question whether pessimism, as such, does not tend to increased activity of mind, whatever blight it may cast upon the moral sense, as involving critical examination into things ordinarily unquestioned, and a constant warfare with the received optimism. I might quote the extraordinary activity of the German Schopenhauer; and as to the general futility of any philosophical theory in stopping the processes of thought, the name of Spinoza is instructive as a believer in the doctrine, of all others, to stop effort, - I refer to the theory of Universal Necessity. I should, however, scarce think of seriously refuting...
...Lead the German with me at my ball...
...months just how he was doing, and would be stimulated to improvement. The professors would be urged to do their best, because "A" men would not attend their recitations unless they considered they really could not afford to be absent. Such a plan unites the best features of German, American, and English universities. It gives a man every privilege and liberty until he abuses it, and needs to be disciplined. Nothing is left in an uncertain state. Those students who become sensible in the last part of their course to the failures of the first years would have a chance...