Word: life
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Taylor, Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, followed him. "A crisis in the history of English education is once more upon us," he said, "in that classicism education is once more attacked, and the affirmation strongly made that the interests of practical life must no longer be neglected in our educational system. Englishmen must be prepared at school to compete in commerce and in business with their foreign rivals, and for this purpose they will have to renounce in part that training in Latin and Greek which former generations of Englishmen have received. The assertion is made more peremptorily, more...
...success of the Republican party would lead to an unwise foreign politicy.- Blaine's Foreign Policy (pam.); The Proudest Chapter of his Life...
...Some conditions of Intellectual Life in America." Professor C. E. Norton of the college...
...every Corner Sing," Watson's "O Worship the Lord," and that beautiful effort of Mozart's, "O Great Jehovah." Mr. Babcock, the soloist, sang with his customary skill and finish. The sermon was delivered by Dr. Gordon, in which he tersely compared the influence of the race of life upon the runner to the influence of spectators upon the various athletic contests...
...above quotation forms a part of a general attack upon Harvard life, especially its tendency to lay great stress upon athletic contests. Much as we deem the writer of the article egregiously ignorant about our affairs, there can be no doubt that Harvard is not exempt from the evils which always beset a large body of society-composed entirely of men, but that is no particular fault of ours. What can be laid at our door is a certain triviality in dealing with affairs, and a provinciality in regard to the outside world, but great as has been the misfortune...