Word: means
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...diseases, and that students should not expose themselves and their friends by flocking to the rooms of those who have such symptoms. It is better for students to get professional advice and thus avoid the danger of spreading a serious disease, than to trust to luck that these symptoms mean merely a slight cold...
Next to the priest comes the prophet. A prophet does not mean a man who does nothing but look into the future, for most of the prophets were very prominent men in their own time. Each one of them was an enthusiast who brought some special message or who instituted some needed reform. The prophets stand for just the opposite of what the priests do. Their work is to progress and to lead the world out of its old faults. So they are not in sympathy with the priests and the priests cannot understand them...
...rather in a slow but steady raising of the standard of college honor. Not many years ago there was little opposition to practical jokes in the class room or to the most open cheating in examinations. The jokes have gone and the petty cheater is now looked upon as mean and contemptible. These things have disappeared because of public opion against them. Seminars must be starved out in the same way by the students themselves. Self respect and loyalty to the best interests of Harvard should be sufficient motive for the overthrow of this system which is so antagonistic...
...Allen said that true historical spirit is not antiquarian research. To apply this rightly, we must ask, in taking hold of a subject, two questions,- What does it mean? and then, Is it true? The first question we can never fully answer, but if we continue our inquiry in this line, we will be following true historical spirit...
...great English universities. This action of the overseers is a direct compliment to the cause of the higher education of women and a direct compliment also to this particular institution. A formal acknowledgement from Harvard University of the value and importance of the work of the Harvard Annex must mean everything to the Annex; it must contribute to its success in many ways. The fact that diplomas will be given by the new Radcliffe College countersigned by the president of Harvard University, will add immensely to the dignity of the institution and to the significance of its degrees. The compliment...