Word: give
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...founding a college to be called by his name, has chosen a new method of doing this, which, if well carried out, will prove of great value, not only on account of its intrinsic advantages, but also from the impetus which it will give to the advancement of higher education in America. A short account of his plan was given in the Nation of January 28, from which the present outline is taken...
...early age, but to promote learning by encouraging young graduates to continue their studies. By offering large salaries and the prospect of having students who are intelligent and eager to learn, they hope to attract professors of the highest scholarship, who will be obliged to keep up and give evidence of their learning by publishing from time to time essays on subjects included in their special departments...
...more if greater opportunities for voluntary instruction were offered. To be sure, many electives are taken as extras, but to do this faithfully requires six or eight hours a week of extra work, which is too much for many students. Besides, it is due to our best instructors to give them a position where they will no longer be troubled by marks and examinations, and where they can teach students who chose their electives, not because they were "soft," or because marks were high, or because there was nothing else to take, but with an earnest desire to do their...
...said, of course, that if a student is worth making anything of, he should need no incentive so sordid as money; he should seek improvement for its own sake, and give his less fortunate brother a chance, - in other words, give him the race. For it is the more wealthy student, tempted by the pleasures of society, who needs the spur of emulation. The University has no business to assume that some men are less selfish than others; nor is it its province to see how many men of one class it can educate more than those of another...
...course it will be said that Wednesday was an extremely cold day, and that we only stay in chapel for a few minutes; but we have had, and will have again, days just as cold, and fifteen minutes is amply sufficient to give a cold that will last for weeks. Perhaps it is not too much to ask that some professor in favor of prayers should take the trouble to explain what other reasons there are for supporting them...