Word: laws
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Horne, '92, closed the debate for the affirmative. The outbreak, he said, was not against Dom Pedro, but against the succession of his son-in-law, the Count D'Eu. The diversity of population in Brazil is not greater than in the United States The United States, too, had a small population and a large territory at the beginning of the government. The Spanish Americans have proved by their commerce that they can make a republic successful. All the good that the emperor has done has been under a government practically republican...
...medicine, law, or any other profession, a thorough practical knowledge of the science of teaching can only be gained by actual experience, and the work of a course in pedagogy would necessarily be largely theoretical. A sound theoretical and philosophical knowledge of pedagogy could be gained, and the after experience would thereby be based upon correct principles. This is the line of work which a college could do and for such work Harvard is already well fitted. The proposition should receive the careful attention of the college authorities...
...last number of the Nation a correspondent protests against the indifference of our colleges to the study of pedagogy. He declares that class reports show that teaching is universally more popular than any profession excepting the law and medicine, and yet the profession of teaching receives absolutely no attention at our universities. He further says, "The fact that teaching comes second and third on the list, although sufficient to show that some preparation for it should be provided, by no means shows the full importance of the subject. When we call to mind the very large number of college graduates...
...asserts that in higher instruction there has been no advance in methods, "no universally recognized step in the science and art of teaching," that will compare with the improvement of methods in public school instruction. And the reason for this he finds in the lack of any fundemental law of pedagogy among college professors. College professors are free-lances and when they are successful teachers it is ascribed to their individuality rather than to the correctness of their methods; in consequence the value of their example is lost on their less successful fellow-teachers...
...Whatever may have been the sins of ourselves or others in the past, this year our hands are clean and our hearts are pure. Princeton has broken every law of the foot-ball association to which no penalty is attached. We have not this year stooped to her methods, and we sincerely hope that in the future we never shall. Yet it is useless to attempt to cope with her or any other college that uses such means. We prefer not to play foot-ball at all, if we cannot play on equal terms, without jockeying, and without question...