Word: kinds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...upon his horns; he is looked upon with mingled feelings of suspicion and pity. That there can be any knowledge outside of the curriculum of the University, or if there is, that it is of any value, is not dreamed of. The specialist who pleads in behalf of another kind of learning is considered a fanatic. "We don't want original researches," I have heard it said, "but good all-round men," that is to say, the best specimens of the crammer who have a smattering of many things, but know nothing well. But how can it be otherwise...
...some degree responsible for the behavior of the community. This little matter of the good lame of the yard will be one way in which men can give their shove in the right direction, by not only passively but actively promoting celebrations of a handsome and orderly kind...
...among them is only to be schooled for the wider association that must come later. For the character of college students can differ very little, if at all, and to see and know what men are and what they may and ought to be, to be associated with every kind of man, that the country affords through differences in locality or occupation or early education and circumstances, is the better to prepare oneself to meet the same, only stronger and more serious characters in later life
...upper classes the subjects do not permit cramming of the same kind as that practiced with the classics. Hundreds of pages of history, philosophy, and physics must be read, and the men usually work alone, or at most in pairs. It is believed by some that it is poor policy to cram on the day preceding an examination, and after two or three days' work the last 24 hours should be passed without any time being given to the subject of the next day's ordeal. Few have the coolness or self-confidence required to pursue this policy. There...
...college in the United States has a more liberal tendency regarding religion than our own. Harvard does less at the present day to thrust any particular belief on the students than any foreign or indigenous institution of its kind. But the unfortunate reputation acquired in some past decade still clings vigorously in the minds of many, minds that must be either narrow or willfully ignorant. The services in the college chapel are of so unsec tarian a nature that any regular attender would soon see how absurd is the idea that brands Harvard as a "Unitarian college." A true view...