Word: liberale
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Says Mr. John E. Todd, in a letter recently printed in the New York Times: "The chief objection to the elective system adopted some time ago at Harvard, and more recently at Yale, is that its tendency is to produce specialists instead of men of broad culture and liberal ideas...
A pamphlet entitled "A Sketch of the University of Virginia" has recently appeared, from which we learn, with some astonishment, that of the gifts it has received since its establishment in 1819, amounting to $719,000, $653,000 have been contributed since the war-a fact of which the moral...
The first night of Genevieve Ward, in "Henry VIII," at Melbourne, was what is called a "student night," and the gallery, usually given over to the possession of poorer play goers, was crammed with towering collars, white linen, and the stylishy cut clothes of hundreds who, upon less important occasions...
Every proper attempt of the government of the University to lessen the expense of a liberal education must be gratifying to the public, and meet with their hearty concurrence; the members of the community, therefore, in general and the parents and guardians of the students in particular, it is not...
And with this confession the prayer takes the form of intercession: "O Lord, send us friends. Thou has made many of our people rich. Now, O Lord, make them liberal. Teach them to speak to us through the A. H. M. S., O Lord!"