Word: importance
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...school to any particular college, or which shall in any way tend to increase the size of the delegation to any college. Feeling as we do in the matter, we cannot remain silent. We would urge the men who have the movement in charge to carefully consider its full import before taking any definite action...
...persons connected with the University. The Society ought to be a general agent for various objects, which it cannot touch at present. It ought, for instance, to print and sell at cost the various abstracts, summaries and outlines used in so many courses of instruction. It ought to import all the foreign text-books used. It cannot do these things while its dealings are restricted to its own members, an obstacle which is removed by the new scheme...
...blessed with an opportunity to rest from the sterner duties of life to so cultivate, so use his time that the highest good may result not only to himself, but also to his fellow men. The use of leisure time may be made of so much import to society that its abuse will result in a serious detriment to the character of society. It ought to be felt by every man of leisure that he is offered an opportunity to improve society by the proper use of that leisure. We trust that in the future we may have other professions...
...progress, while the white line measures Yale's standstill or decline. The latter's freshman class of this year is only 134, or 22 less than entered in 1865; while 258 entered this year at Cambridge, or 133 more than twenty years ago. It is impossible to mistake the import of these figures; more students are evidently being attracted to the Massachusetts university than to the Connecticut college...
...Williams was far too conservative for its own interests has become of no significance in the last few years. Athletics are accorded their full scope, electives, without interfering with the most radical ideas of a liberal education, are multiplying, and now lastly but by no means of the least import comes the welcome intelligence that the faculty have decided in favor of semi-annual examinations. We are to be no longer tortured by a fearful looking forward to frequent judgements during the ten weary months of college work - the roots of such learning as we have acquired...