Word: laying
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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During the service the choir sang the following anthems: "Praise ye the Father" - Gounod. "I Will Lay Me Down" - Niles. "My Hope is in the Everlasting" - Stainer. Soloist, Mr. George W. Want...
...then a comprehensive grasp of the subject you would teach. Right here lies the danger of pedagogic systems; they may tend to give the impression that one can teach without thoroughly knowing one's subject, and that teaching is a science apart from the subject one would teach. Lay out limitations to your subject, and remember the value of detailed work depends on knowledge that sinks in and stays, not what may be easily learned and forgotten...
History comes from a root that means to see, then to know by seeing, and finally to tell what is known. Such is the Greek, Latin, Italian and English idea. The German word, geschickte or das geschehen expresses a somewhat different idea, that which has happened, and German writers lay more stress on facts. Indeed there may be said to be no literary history in Germany. We have regarded history as a literary art, and often literary men that can hardly be said to have been historical scholars have taught in the large universities of England. A definition of history...
...following men have commenced practice in throwing the hammer at Yale: Coxe '93 S., McDuffy '94, Lay '94, Morrison '92, Lyman '95, and Stillman...
...General Reading as an Element in Education," and both the subject and the lecturer deserve a large audience. Too many men, in going through college, specialize and neglect their general reading of good literature - and it is on the importance of this general reading that Professor Allen will lay stress...