Word: learning
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...with sincere regret that we learn that Professor Gurney has resigned the position of Dean of the College Faculty; and we feel sure that we express the sentiments of all undergraduates when we offer him our thanks for the impartial and efficient manner in which he has fulfilled the duties of his difficult office...
These facts are enough to show the unfairness of Mr. Reiley's covert attack on Harvard, even supposing all his strictures on Mr. Allen's Latin were correct. But Mr. R. apparently has yet to learn, what every experienced Latin teacher does learn, that it is very unsafe to say that anything is bad Latin. He certainly has detected some serious mistakes, - one, over which he gets specially exultant, in the conjugation of a verb, - one so very bad that a candid reviewer would have recognized it at once, to use Macaulay's expression on a similar occasion...
...here becomes necessary to summon this spirit from its vasty deep into such shallow water as the elements of logic, where he will learn that affirmative propositions do not distribute their predicates, and that the middle term of a syllogism should be used univocally. It is also necessary to remind him of the generally acknowledged fact, that a cause is not identical with its result. Indifference, a momentary consequence of liberal training, is not the cause of proper mental development, except so far as, in the sense of an unbiassed mind, it is a prerequisite of liberal thought...
...some extent by the harder working portion of students, but the less studious class seldom resort to it. It is perhaps even of more importance to the latter class than to the former, for they endeavor in the last day, perhaps hour or two, before an examination to learn what others have taken care to study as it came. An interruption at such a time is often fatal to the success of the hard worker, and a cause of entire failure to the easy-goer; and since it is mostly through this class of non-workers that the custom...
...gratify the managers of the recent explosion at University to learn that their action has been widely noticed by the college press, and has also figured, in a somewhat embellished from, in the columns of the New York Sun. The reputation which attaches itself to such reports is, however, anything but creditable to the College, and it is to be hoped that the thoughtless students who so disgraced the name of Harvard a few weeks ago will hereafter restrain their pranks within the bounds of common decency...