Word: inferiors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tanners' strike at Pittsburg, Pa., has collapsed. All the best men have returned to work at the reduction, and the places of inferior men have been filled...
...standard in studies - but because the university no longer represented clearly-defined ideas about which students could cluster. The character of Cornell's students had accordingly deteriorated; they were not now such men of force as formerly, only one of the leading colleges being as low as, or inferior to it in this regard. The attitude of the faculty toward the students in their methods of government was condemned. The present marking system and the school-boy treatment of the students were wrong. The committee pays a tribute to the genius and ability of President White, yet expresses disapproval...
...Harvard College at the beginning of President Eliot's administration," says the writer, "must have presented a rather inferior appearance, as judged by the buildings. During the last thirteen years about two million dollars have been used for building purposes. Some of the oldest halls have Revolutionary memories, but have not attractive exteriors. The lecture system so largely used, in part even in Mathematics, of course offers temptation to cramming; and that very much of this is done is not denied; but this is not regarded as wholly evil even by so competent a judge as the late Professor Jevons...
...health. All brain workers testify to this. Another is that of personal safety from danger. The next consideration is that of safety from suspicion. It moreover is right that we should have consideration for others. A man may further the cause of temperance by moderation, but moderation is the inferior method...
...particular university. In England and America, a student selects the university in which he expects to find the best general efficiency, in which he sees the best scholarship in all the departments, not the one in which some one department may be of surpassing worth and the others of inferior merit. On the whole, the American system in this respect is to be preferred, unless a man desires to study a specialty. It should be the aim of a university first to make all its departments thorough and scholarly and then to collect the brilliant men of the country around...