Word: importance
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...undergraduate 8 rooming within a half-mile, or within a quarter mile of the chapel. There ought to be a provision by which students over twenty-one, and the parents of those under twenty-one could obtain release from the requisition. It would give reality to the religious import of attendance. At Antioch a student to whom I gave permission, at his father's request, to be always absent, become immediately regular and punctual in coming; he had, it appears, complained only of the compulsion, and was willing and glad to come when free...
...before her. For five hundred years she did not relinquish an industry which she found adapted to her country. Then came Free Trade. Her manufacturing industries were too firmly rooted to die out immediately, but agriculture languished. A country which ought to have exported food, was now forced to import in large quantities. England has neglected her agricultural for her manufacturing interests. Turn to India, a country which before English rule, wove the finest cloths known to the world. She had been protected by the policy of the East India Company. Now, thanks to free trade, she has no manufactures...
...frequent, add much to the attractiveness of a paper, and give much more satisfaction to a reader than to plod through a tedious essay on "Melancholy," "Imagination," or "George Washington." At the same time it cultivates ability in that line of writing, which fact, though not of great importance, ought not to be overlooked. There is no reason why some in our own colleges should not turn their attention to this line of writing, and produce interesting, readable articles, such as will improve the tone of our papers and make them more entertaining than at present. If those...
...strings of "Finals" and "Semis;" but then the query arises, "Who would constitute the teaching body if all the professors became undergraduates? A social system which can support a learned class of such disinterested devotion to a life of study must either be exceedingly wealthy or exceedingly despotic. The import of the passage after all is only that the class of which college students in China are composed never contains any Philistines, while in America - in America it would be difficult to make such an assertion...
...however modest and unobtrusive a form, is full of vast meaning for the future of Harvard. The little step from an annex under the care of Harvard's professors to a women's college, as a part of Harvard University, is likely to prove a measure of far greater import than even the introduction of the elective system, with all its wide-spreading results. Any changes that might follow will of course be very gradual, but for that reason will be all the more far-reaching. Harvard thus far has represented one type of college life, the exact opposite...