Word: mereness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...they furnish a wide field of choice. The range of subjects is also large. The experience to be gained is one of the principal features of the work, as the teachers will be expected to take part in the social side of the student activities as well as the mere routine. The term of service varies from two to four years, according to the position, and the salary amounts to from $400 to $600 a year in addition to living quarters and travelling expenses to and from the field. In some cases board is provided in addition to a room...
...President Eliot is reported to have spoken. To be sure we have not any statute proclaiming the rights of man and the Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity of the human race. But we know what Equality and Fraternity meant and did in France, and one fails to see how mere lip-devotion to these dogmas is going to help out any society. But if Equality and Fraternity are to be a matter of deeds and not mere words, it is an open question whether one can find a people more loving, more mild, and more charitably disposed than, for instance...
...education by seeing something of the world before settling down to the everyday work of life. This should appeal to men intellectually inclined, who have a love of adventure and of travel over unbeaten paths. The experience of living in the Orient for a year presents educational possibilities which mere travelling cannot give, as it brings a man into intimate touch with the life of the people, and enables him to study it under the most favorable conditions. Now that the importance of the Orient is beginning to be fully realized, a knowledge of this part of the world...
Greek philosophy from Plato to Plotinus tried to reach its solution through reason by the conception of general ideas of which reality is mere imperfect correspondence. Reality was thus considered inferior to the idea, action inferior to contemplation. But this did not rescue the individual soul from death, since the "idea" was general, not individual...
...Faculty Advisers was devised with two objects in view. Primarily the function of the Faculty Adviser is to guide the student in his choice of electives. In this respect the system has been a success. But it was hoped that the Faculty Adviser would be more than a mere signer of study-cards; it was hoped that he would be a friend to his advisees...