Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sudden change. Now, there is no doubt that most of the criticisms were absurd and severe, and probably did neither the writer nor the men of whose work it was written any good; but the ideas obtained from reading the work of others was of inestimable value. No matter how careful and thorough in his criticisms the instructor is, no matter how painstaking the student is, under the present system, he can but go on attempting to perfect himself in the peculiar style which chance or his early education may have led him to adopt. If he gets a chance...
...good to his fellowmen, - there is still to be regarded the aim of earning a livelihood. With this aim the world gets along better than if all men were distinguished philanthropists. Abroad, the profession is under supervision of government. Here the government exercises no control, except in the matter of signing certificates of insanity. It may be better so, but now at least there is much opportunity given for quackery. This side of the profession may be removed by the admission of educated practitioners. At the same time young men should not be advised to become physicians. Medicine must...
There is also complaint about the inequality of the courses. This is largely a matter of opinion. What makes one course harder than another? It is simply a man's inadaptibility to that course. What is hard for one man is easy for another and conversely. If a man wishes to win honors and fails to keep pace with his competitors, instead of complaining about the course, he should seek more fruitful fields for his labor...
...first page; instead of the old plainly lettered Harvard Lampoon we have a very attracting heading, which shows Lampy sitting on the cross bar of the H, playing a banjo. Another improvement which lightens the appearance of the page, has been made by printing all the reading matter and most of the pictures without ruled lines, either on the borders or to divide the columns. Then, too, paper of a lighter tint is used. In considering that besides these reforms in mere printing, the editors have given us a very interesting and witty number, we have every reason to believe...
...little hampered as possible. From this he gives the teachings of the modern school of Protectionists. "The Evidence of History' is interesting in comparison with the work of Prof. Dunbar in the same line. The eloquence of the speaker is necessary to give force to the subject matter of the lecture on the Workingman. As a whole, the work makes the best use of the arguments at hand, but there is an element of sophisty in the treatment of the weaker points in the subject...