Word: liberale
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
It seems a great pity that the intercollegiate games at New York were not managed a little better financially than they were. Crowds always attend athletic games in that city and the reason for the comparatively small audience at the college sports must have been due to poor advertisement, for...
We do not care to discuss the value of the training afforded by any particular course of study, but we do think that in both instances the true purpose and meaning of a liberal college education is misunderstood. Are we here to prepare for our professions? Then what do the...
President Eliot has a good word to say for the study of history in his recent article in the June Century, discussing the proper elements for a college education. "If any study is liberal and literalizing," he writes, "it is the modern study of history. Philology and polite literature arrogate...
The action of the academic council in offering such liberal terms for the award of these fellowships is but a step in the march of progress which the well-wishers of Harvard desire to see, and will be accompanied with admirable results in increasing the claims of Harvard as the...
The June Century is fully up to the standard of the other numbers which we have received. President Eliot discusses the question "What is a Liberal Education?" and tries to show that the sciences and English should be given leading places in the school and also in the college. An...