Word: lives
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will never be successfully carried out before another thing is done. What we need as yet is not so much the university as the student. There is still almost wholly wanting among us that higher ambition in our young men which is necessary in order that a university may live and thrive. We need the ambition that would go beyond the studies required for practical purposes, that would go beyond the bread-and-butter studies. And to produce and foster such an ambition, it seems to me, is not by far so difficult as seems to be generally supposed...
...only on account of the interest always attached to a political debate, but also because it is a question upon which every man has some opinion, and an opportunity is presented to ventilate his views. A debating society such as the Union should aim to debate questions on live issues and of general interest, as it is only by so doing that men are afforded an opportunity to cultivate and exercise their powers of extemporaneous speaking...
...convey. This trick of newspapers is growing with certain Boston dailies. In fact this method of appealing to the lower classes, to those who hunger for excitement and glory in high colored descriptions, has outgrown respectable limits. Public decency calls for a reform. The prosperity of many papers that live by telling the truth in a truthful and respectable manner, shows that there are classes that can distinguish between journalism and newspaperism, and that a financial existence does not necessarily depend on loud type and high sounding distorting headings. The public press should study to elevate public taste...
...number, are women graduates from the academic departments of Cornell, Michigan, Wisconsin, Boston, Wesleyan, Kansas, Syracuse and North-western Universities; Oberlin, Vassar, Smith and Wellesley Colleges, and the Mass. Institute of Technology. Four regular meetings of the association are held during the year in different cities. The members live scattered through thirty states and territories, and thus the work is necessarily accomplished mainly by means of special committees and distribution of circulars or pamphlets...
...having only the old regulations before us, we cannot venture to recommend the recent version. We merely urge upon all that they be no slower to censure than they are to praise; and if treated in this fair way, we believe that the regulations will live or die as they deserve...