Word: manner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...faculty of the Berlin University, written in 1869, to the effect that the modern languages do not furnish a substitute for the ancient languages, "for, since as a rule the only thing aimed at in their study is a certain facility of use, they cannot serve in equal manner as an instrument of culture." In this quotation, I said, the keynote of the whole question was struck. We must keep the ancient languages in our colleges as they furnish the only successful instrument of culture. I do not believe that this aspect of the question has been sufficiently studied, particularly...
...inter-collegiate athletic contests the faculty wish to have them done "decently and in order;" to be managed in such manner as not to interfere materially with the more serious duties of the student, or greatly disturb the ordinarily placid routine of undergraduate life; to make them incidents, not epochs, in college history; to limit their preliminary training within reasonable bounds as to expenditure, either of time or money; to totally abandon the employment of professional trainers or assistants; to avoid undue notoriety and its attendant unhealthy excitement; to forswear all gate-money speculation-in short, to conduct these contests...
...perhaps from a practical standpoint this custom is really objectionable. Formerly, when the entire college furniture was cheap and rough, this carving was a very different matter than it has become now when our buildings are fitted up in a comparatively handsome manner. Even the most partial would freely admit that the great majority of the names which are thus carved are not famous and probably never will be, while in waiting for the one famous man to arise from the ninety and nine common-place, a room is greatly disfigured by this indiscriminate cutting. It is hardly presumable that...
...Realschule frequently dulls rather than stimulates eagerness for knowledge. Still less are the modern languages able to take the place of Greek and Latin; for, since as a rule the only thing aimed at in their study is a certain facility of use, they cannot serve in equal manner as an instrument of culture. The main point is that the instruction given in the Realschule lacks a central point; hence the unsteadiness in its system of teaching. It embraces a collection of studies most of which cannot be pursued with the requisite thoroughness within the limits of the school...
...years in Russia. He was first engaged as tutor to a young Russian nobleman but was afterwards connected with the Imperial University of Moscow and the Lyceum of Nicholas. He spoke in substance as follows. The children of the lower orders in Russia grow up in about the same manner as the children of other nations of Europe. They are taught to reverence all sacred things and to take off their hats to churches and to the monks and priests whom they meet in the streets. The children of the upper classes have somewhat more attention paid to their education...