Word: learning
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...what students actually learn in college that is to be of value to them in active life, it is the mental training which they receive. A level head and a broad judgment will be active and intelligent in whatever work they are engaged; and this breadth of judgment and intelligence of thought is just what college with its four years of recitations and examinations will give to any person who is capable of receiving it. It is untrue, then, to say that a man who has derived these advantages from a college course is inferior...
...learn from the Illini, the organ of the Illinois Industrial University, that at Commencement "Harvard College brings the whole class out, and limits their performances to three and one half minutes...
...Dean's report concerning the examinations for admission in 1876 we learn that fifty-two per cent of the candidates failed to pass in English composition, while the percentage of those who failed in Greek composition was only twenty-seven per cent, and in Latin only twenty-five per cent...
...differing from the popular world on a subject which is not of vital importance to the salvation of either party concerned. As a religious friend of mine once observed, who had been thrashed for expounding to a fast friend his views of the other world, it is well to learn the grace of silence...
...bore you with any more illustrations. You can soon learn how to laugh at people, and how to make them think that you are laughing with them. And when you learn that, ennui will vanish, and you will be as consummate a man of the world...