Word: grave
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first chapter of this little work appeared in the Atlantic Monthly last winter. It is entitled "Our Civil War the Cause of a New Interest in Economics," and treats of the economical questions which were forced upon the country by the Rebellion, and the grave blunders which our statesmen made before arriving at solutions of the problems. The last part of the chapter is devoted to the consideration of some of the political questions of the day which require a knowledge of political economy, such as the silver question, the banking question, the problem of national taxation, navigation laws, paper...
...Another mistake which I consider a grave one is in the method of training commonly followed. In nearly all American colleges one of the methods of training oarsmen is to run them from one to five miles per day in the hope of thus increasing their staying powers. This I believe to be wrong, for assuredly if a man was training for a running race, he would not practice throwing the hammer. To my mind the only desirable training for a race is to work at the oars or weights...
...President Robinson is careful not to make the elective system a hobby. It is a serious question, 'To what extent shall the system of electives be carried?' It is with him a matter of grave inquiry 'whether to exchange so widely, as so many seem disposed to do, the long-established methods of our American Colleges for foreign university methods - as, for example, to make all college studies elective - does not presuppose and require an extent and degree of previous training not yet possible to be attained in our preparatory schools; whether its effect with a large class of students...
Leaning nonchalantly against the railing was a conscious figure immediately recognized as a potent, grave and reverend senior. Every thing, from his flossy silk hat to his boots said senior, while his manner of twirling his mustache and regarding all beholders was so superior and impressive that we trembled while we gazed...
...laws of Harvardium was that no foreigner should be admitted to the sacred precincts and classic shades of their renowned city, unless he was able to spell ten words of a language long since in its grave. The words were so difficult to master and pronounce, that comparatively few obtained the privileges of citizenship. Other cities, notably Cornellsium, were rapidly augmenting their population by increased acquisition of new citizens, who not only rose to distinction in advancing the infant sciences, but aided materially in defending the city in times of danger...