Word: meaningly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...year or two, he would begin to catechise the young, to give addresses in the way of exposition, exhortation, encouragement and rebuke. Practice would bring facility. Might not, I say, seven years of the actual work, in the susceptible period of life, make a preacher of no mean power, without the grammar school, without the art classes, without the divinity hall...
...What do you mean by cutting...
...outdoor sports and more to books. Dr. McCosh, like his learned brother the Rev. Howard Crosby does not believe in developing the muscles as well as the brain. Dr. McCosh is an intelligent man, but on the subject of physical culture he is as far from the golden mean as the man who advocates the other extreme. Excessive athletic exercise is as injurious as none at all, and the error of the president of Princeton College is shared by many people. We are told by the learned professors that occasionally a student suffers some slight injury in the gymnasium which...
...this, the Springfield Republican says: "Such a course is weak and censurable. The offending professor might have been discharged if he was guilty of indecency, or the young women might have been allowed to depart if they were prurient; but to issue a wholesale order against womankind is a mean retreat before a parcel of boys...
...Beacon, published by students of Boston University, inquires: "What did President Eliot mean by saying, I am glad that Boston University is open to both sexes? Does he or does he not believe in co-education? In his speech Tuesday evening he was careful to commit himself on neither side, and seemed greatly relieved when he had finished...