Word: gist
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...York Mail and Express has this fall made an innovation in the form of a weekly column called the "College World." This will co-perate with the college newspapers in exchanging news of interest to the students. We publish the gist of last week's "College World...
...regard to the day in question, which was Saturday and consequently an important date in making up a schedule. Williams offered Harvard and Yale the same days, and when both had accepted for the 23rd of October decided to play Yale in preference to Harvard; such is the gist of the matter. Our readers may judge for themselves...
...gist of our position is, that, if we yield to Yale again this year, we may as well be prepared to yield to her for all time to come, which we have no notion of doing. The conditions on which we insist this year have been copied with minuteness, and as a matter of principle, from the conditions which Yale saw fit to force on us last year; after this year, if Yale wishes to do so, the arrangements between the two colleges will be a matter for mutual concession, but Yale must first make good her unfair extortions...
...think that the gist of Professor Tyndall's remarks is that unless there be a natural interest between instructor and students, that unless a bond of sympathy exists between them. time is wasted in taking this particular course. Although we may learn much, the lesson will make no visible impression on the mind, and after a year or two will fade completely away, never to be recalled. Yet where are we to get instructiors of the type recommended by Professor Tyndall? This is indeed a gordian knot in the shape of a question, and we must confess has not been...
...College is ever in the van of progress in educational matters, and in his address, read last February before the members of the Johns Hopkins University, now printed in the Century, he strikes the key-note of the "new education" which is beginning to push itself into notice. The gist of the whole matter seems to be simply this: Not to love Latin and Greek the less, but the new subjects the more. This view is one which Harvard has taken the lead in promulgating and in putting into practical effect, and it is one that we believe will come...