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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...instance, to see how few men take an active part in the discussions. The courses meet day after day and just about the same men do the talking each time. This is an unfortunate thing, for the method of free discussion is the ideal method of instruction. Students can learn from each other where there is a free expression of opinion and a man may get a world of good from the very absurdity of his questions and ideas if he only speaks them and has them corrected. The very habit of expressing ones opinion before others is of itself...
...lesson of a great gathering like that at the fair is that of the equality of men as men. Nations should learn to judge each other, not by their political systems, or by their national peculiarities, but by the contributions that each has made to humanity, They should not regard each other as brutes or as angels, but as men and brothers...
...state of things. He looks at the idea of universal brotherhood as the crown of his civilization but it is the base of all true civilization. Our ways of teaching are to blame for the wrong ideas that we have of the distinctions between men. The first thing we learn in geography is that we are civilized and that many of the other races are barbarians whom we are indeed to pity but not to regard as brothers. A good school in which to unlearn this idea is the Midway Plaisance at Chicago. There we see all sorts...
Still, the eleven and the whole University ought to learn from this game that they have no right to be confident. Where a team that has a reputation for scoring cannot run up more than ten points against the B. A. A., it is time to be looking out for the day when it will be still more difficult...
...Harrison and Ingalls; fullback, Hayes. None of these men played in the Yale game last fall, most of the men treating the work in anything but a serious light; but later on, under the coaching of Shea, Rice, and Captain Borden, they braced somewhat, and showed some willingness to learn the lesson set for them...