Word: great
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...youthful mates with strange stories. In 1765 he went to Leipsig to study law. He found poetry, however, more interesting, and returned to Frankfort, but afterward completed his legal education at Strasburg. With his entering into Strasburg came the beginning of his intellectual wakening, for the sight of the great cathedral and his falling in love with the village pastor's daughter furnished him themes for many of his most famous lyrics. In 1775 he left for a short visit to a small principality where he became so intimate with the duke that their intimacy became the general topic...
...series of winter entertainments by the students will soon begin. Next Friday the second annual public meeting of the Barnard Literary Association will be held in Hamilton Hall. An oration, an essay, and a debate on the question of coeducation, will compose the exercises. The great event of the college year will be on February 4, when the inauguration of Mr. Sech Low as president of the college will take place in the Metropolitan Opera House...
...Hastings a few days ago a water tank, situated over number 43 overflowed, leaked through the ceiling and spoiled a great part of the furniture...
...will not venture to say. Is teaching a profession, when the majority of teachers are elected once a year? Is it a profession when more than 33 per cent. are replaced every year? There are a few men and women who look upon it as a profession. The great majority of persons who teach, however, never intend to treat teaching as a profession. I say, therefore, that the institutions of higher education have some good reasons for not attempting to teach the philosophy of education. I thing, too, we may offer another apology for not having attempted to teach...
Professor Shaler's article in the current number of the Atlantic Monthly is indeed interesting. He makes some striking remarks on the difference between the strain caused by mental and physical exercise, showing by the use of statistics how very great is the mental strain under which the teacher or literary man labors. The agriculturist, the artisan and the professional man in general who is not engaged in teaching the youth, are accustomed to continuous toil for at least ten hours daily six days in the week. With the instructor it is quite different; about one third of the year...