Word: ill
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...system in American colleges is, we believe, daily proving itself more unsatisfactory alike to instructors and students. Educators generally are beginning to see that it is totally inadequate for its purposes, and almost as readily defeats as subserves its own ends. For the higher university education it is especially ill-adapted. This fact indeed has been long recognized, but the innate conservatism of college authorities, as well as a natural tendency to extend the methods of primary teaching even to collegiate instruction, has sufficed to insure it a lamentable prevalence in every stage of the college curriculum. The absurdity...
...students' government at the Illinois Industrial, Champaign, Ill., is a novelty. The members of three governmental departments, executive, judicial and legislative, are chosen by the students. The actions of the students are entirely subject to the control of this government. A paid marshal is employed, invested with the power to arrest; two justices with the power to try, and two attorneys with the power to prosecute. A senate, composed of twenty-one members enacts the necessary laws. Such an institution creates an air of independence, a feeling of responsibility, and serves as an excellent school. - [Academia...
...Clarkson N. Potter is seriously ill, and his death is expected at any moment...
...another held the cat, and a third jammed a pistol into the cat's ear and fired, shooting the man in the hand who held the cat, and the one with the lantern was wounded in the arm. The cat left when it saw how matters stood and that ill feeling was being engendered...
...almost lost the little signification which it originally possessed. It is generally regarded as referring to the want of class feeling among the students, and more especially to the personal independence which always characterizes a man capable of finding his own occupation and amusement. The disappearing of the childish ill-feeling toward men of a higher class, is one of the most potent indications of a university, and it seems strange that its absence should be regretted. That men, at a place like Harvard, should take little interest in the personal affairs of those about them, that they should...