Word: latter
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...case with a compromise, it fails to give any sure test. Suppose that this plan works ill, it does not therefore follow that the other plan, of allowing those in the later years of college to study as seems most advantageous to themselves, would also fail. For the latter would bring an entirely new element into the experiment; that is, it would rouse in nearly all the students a sense of responsibility, without which no system can be satisfactory or endurable; while the former, though benefiting one class, - those, however, who have already the sense of responsibility, - would, by contrast...
PROFESSOR SHALER will return from Europe the latter part of May. He will assist in managing a summer school at Nantucket, in which Professor Agassiz, and other eminent naturalists of the College, will lecture. The design of the school is to give field instruction to those who intend to become teachers of Natural History. Board will be cheap, and the tuition-fee probably about...
...second displays the most glaring egotism. We may be forced to believe that the Record has robbed the Courant of its type, and possibly of its scissors; but our high regard for that first-named periodical prevents our believing that it ever coveted anything else belonging to the latter...
...Bowdoin, and Brown have signified their willingness to meet us, while no answers have been received from the others. As to how, when, and where to play these Colleges, should they be challenged, nothing, of course can be decided as yet; but there are two plans talked of, the latter of which is considered by far preferable, if practicable. The first plan is to meet each club separately at some city equidistant from the two colleges. This would necessitate an outlay of money rather larger than desirable, and would also consume time which would be hard to obtain. The second...
...object to this custom of supporting a paper in college urge that what time is spent in writing the spicy article or in discussing college topics could better be spent over Greek plays or on the Merovingian dynasty. While no one can doubt the propriety of doing the latter, still it is a pertinent question to ask, wherein have such studies any superiority over writing as a means of discipline. Moreover, it is a recognized fact that the men most ready to write are those who are also most ready to study. In this case there need be no fear...