Word: ill
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...ordinates mental, moral, and physical training, permitting no disparagement of either, is nobly borne out by such a showing as is presented by these statistics. The thinly disguised doctrine of monastic denial and scorn of physical culture, which Dr. Crosby is trying to revive in this country, stands ill in the face of such facts...
President Gilman complains of the small salaries offered to professors. "The professor today has little to look forward to when he becomes too old to lecture or when he is ill. It is suicidal for our institutions to take second-rate men when first-rate men can be obtained." It is one of the weaknesses of our colleges that they are unable to offer greater inducements to able men to take positions as professors. A man of ability who gives up his business or profession for a professor's chair is often called upon to make a great sacrifice, which...
Lieut. Danenhower of the ill-fated Jeannette visited the Law School Friday...
Prince Bismarck is ill with sciatica...
...necessary instruction for passing the examinations. If the universities fail to offer this instruction, special schools will spring up and will draw largely from the classes who would naturally support the colleges. In view of these facts, the strange apathy prevailing at Harvard on this subject seems to be ill-advised. Harvard and other universities will soon be called upon to furnish instruction in departments that have hitherto been weak. It behooves them to be ready to supply the demand when the time comes...