Word: liberale
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President Eliot's recent address at Johns Hopkins on the subject of the proper requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts is likely to create considerable discussion. The subject involved in it is so momentous a one, that one must hesitate to form decided opinions upon it until it...
The terms "smattering" and "superficiality" in knowledge, are frequently used with a great deal of effect nowadays; and yet we think that there is much to be said in favor of smattering in knowledge. Reproach can properly attach to the smatterer only when in the arrogance of half-knowledge, he...
The argument of his address President Eliot thus concluded and summed up: "Finally, I step beyond the strict limits of my subject to urge the enlargement of the circle of liberal arts, on the ground that the interests of the higher education and of the institutions which supply that education...
At the recent anniversary of Johns Hopkins University, one of the chief features of the day was an address by Pres. Eliot. A full report of the address has not yet been printed. We print below an abstract of President Eliot's remarks. The subject of the address was "The...
"If there is one fact more striking than another in the remarkable history of the University Club, it is the fact that from the very first all distinctions between colleges have been ignored. To this I attribute in a large measure its wonderful success. The question has been: "Is he...