Word: half
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...John Hopkins, of Baltimore, put in the hands of a corporation of twelve gentlemen from that city, a sum which was afterwards increased by his bequests to the amount of three and a half millions, for the foundation of a University, giving at the same time almost as much more to build a hospital beside it, so that the Medical School will have especial advantages. The only conditions imposed were that his name should be adopted, and that certain scholarships should be established; as his choice of trustees had been very careful, he felt safe in leaving everything else...
...very miserable frame of mind, I went to bed. I was awakened by the most excruciating twinge I had yet felt. In perfect agony, I tossed about for a moment, and then, longing for relief, snatched at the first bottle that came to hand and swallowed half its contents...
Indeed, such an instructor must regard his explanations as of very little value, and think that the text-book contains all that is requisite, when he thus deprives half of his division of all benefit in his instructions, except such very unsatisfactory scraps as can be obtained from those who were not called upon to write. We cannot see the object of this arrangement, unless it be to counteract the tendency, engendered by voluntary recitations, of "cutting" an instructor from whom nothing can be learned outside of the text-book, and we think such "cutting" would be placed...
...would be deemed unjust that a professor of history or philosophy should deliver a carefully prepared lecture to one half of those who had taken his elective, while the other half were rendered incapable of profiting by it from being engaged in the same room in an examination, we fail to see why it is not equally unjust to explain a lesson under the same conditions, unless the explanations are regarded as of trifling importance. And if the instructor does regard them in this light, he would naturally be one of the most determined opponents of voluntary recitations...
...Monday next much important business will come before the Club with reference to a definitive arrangement for the future, and it is hoped that every member will be present. The lecture will begin promptly at half past seven o'clock...