Word: merely
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first of the five changes. President Eliot says, does not mean the mere introduction of natural history, for this has been done already in many cases, but the changing it into a thorough study, with considerable time devoted to it. The second of the five changes provides that laboratory work shall be performed by the children themselves, which is not prescribed even in the schools that have adopted teaching by experiments. President Eliot advocates the remaining changes as well, and says that the plan needed in the schools is practically the Harvard elective system. If children have a liking...
...neglect college work: one of them was careless and the others unfortunate; that this fall they have shown an honest desire to do their work. What the actual result of their work has been of course the college has no means of knowing, but it feels that the mere work should not decide the matter absolutely; but that the spirit displayed should be considered. Whatever the decision of the Faculty shall be in the matter, this feeling, which certainly exists among the students, should not be disregarded. Enough of the reasons which determine their action should be announced with their...
...former poems have been dashed. While there are touches here and there which remind one of Browning, the conception of the poem as a whole shows a thoughtful originality, the simile of the martyr being particularly felicitious. The diction of the poem is admirable throughout and the mere metrical work is flawless...
...many years. The college has confidence in the men who make up the nine. The character of their work has been such as to inspire this confidence and such as future Harvard teams would do well to follow. It is by such earnest work, and not by the mere playing of Intercollegiate games, that the standard of athletics at Harvard is to be raised and to which we look for our future success...
...teaching. This method is grounded on the principle that law must be taught by vividly impressing upon the student's mind the reasons upon which legal rules and doctrines are based and, by so instructing him, that he will view law as a system of principle, not as a mere aggregation of cases. To accomplish this, the student commits to memory from day to day suitable portions of a treatise upon some particular legal topic written by an expert on the subject. The professor then seeks, from his own experience and learning, to explain whatever difficulties may have been encountered...