Word: longer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following rule has been posted in the gymnasium at Exeter in the handball court: "No student shall play longer than twenty minutes at one time, if others are waiting to use the court...
...which they dim the keenness of the moral perceptions of those affected by them. The mind will not be broadened by an education which is built on the competitive examination system; rather, it will be narrowed by the most superficial and selfish ambition-the rank-list. Knowledge is no longer sought for knowledge's sake, but as an instrument for securing prizes and scholarships. And it too often happens that knowledge is not sought at all, but merely the scholarships and prizes. A false, superficial learning, a knowledge "crammed" just before examinations often serves as well, or better, than...
...Pond this year. At first it was thought that this action was taken for the sake of preventing persons from venturing on the ice before it was strong enough to bear. But now that the ice is four or six inches thick, this excuse for forbidding skating is no longer plausible. If the city of Cambridge is anxious to prevent accidents at the Pond, it seems to us it has adopted a very poor means for carrying out its plan. Now, there is a double incentive for daring boys to skate on the Pond in defiance of the policeman...
...meeting of the board. If the purpose of the overseers is to set the university back on the same plan of college discipline on which it stood fifty years ago, the adoption of their last resolutions will accomplish that object most effectually. We had supposed that Harvard was no longer a "college" in the strict sense of the word, but a "university" in fact as well as in name, that students here were to be allowed some freedom of action, and not to be tied down by a multitude of school-boy rules. If we are not mistaken the same...
...continually pouring into it. The riches excited the cupidity of Xerxes at the time of the Persian invasion, and it was his object to plunder the temple. At this time the nationality and unity which the oracle represented sank with obscurity. It still gave responses, but they were no longer true, and in Athens' wars they favored the enemies of Attica. Two hundred years after Christ, the last word concerning Delphi was heard, and from that time until comparatively lately it has remained buried in the deepest obscurity. In 1840, Dr. Ottfield Muller went to the site of Delphi...