Word: great
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...subject. Why do not a few men go into them? Two groups of Socialists want to do the same. Henry George's Society has challenged business men, professors and clergymen alike without response. The work men have an intense and growing interest in taxation, and want knowledge. Here are great opportunities for scholars, for the practical workers are not trained to this...
...grounds have been improved a great deal and a laboratory for chemistry and physics has been built. There has been no change in the list of studies, excepting in English courses, which vary each year to suit the entrance examinations of Harvard, Yale and other colleges. The new laboratory has necessitated a radical change in the physics and chemistry courses; a good deal of attention is paid to experiments so as to meet the requirements for entrance to Harvard...
...speaker said that our life with its great diversity of joy and sorrow, opens like the battle of the Syrians and Israelits among the hills and valleys of Samaria. We, like the Syrians, are too apt to disregard the influence of God on the average man of the valley, and we place our attention and admiration upon the fortunate ones who have reached the mountain summits of success. But God rules among the hills and valleys alike and it is only from the later stage of mediocrity that the advance of morality is reckoned...
...matter of instruction great fault is found with the fact that so many of the instructors are young men just out of college who are, as it were, experimenting on their classes...
...there is need of a radical reform all through, as is shown by the records of the base-ball and foot-ball teams for the last year, which has also put a damper on the enthusiasm of the college and threatens to result seriously for athletics unless some great changes take place...