Word: omit
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Faculty have voted to omit from the studies of Junior year that of Rhetoric, so that in future Juniors will have only two hours of required work through the year besides themes and forensics. Junior and Sophomore Rhetoric will be consolidated, thus making Sophomore Rhetoric a two-hour course for the entire year. Physics is to become a Freshman study only, and the Sophomores will have four hours' required work instead of six. Political Economy and Constitution will be replaced by some course in history, the nature of which has not yet been decided on; but the course will probably...
...perhaps less amusing, than those of Horace. In reading the Georgics, it is proposed to investigate the peculiarities and difficulties of Virgil's style more thoroughly than can be done in schools, where he often receives - most illogically - the name of an easy author. If a student prefers to omit this course, Tacitus and Juvenal are usually read in the later years to fully as great advantage. All these courses contain a large element of poetry. Course 5, on the other hand, is exclusively prose, which it is found that many prefer, and forms an excellent introduction to Ancient Philosophy...
...Lexington, to which I propose to make a pilgrimage on the coming 19th of April. While I was thus sighing for new worlds to conquer, I suddenly discovered a new continent of untried possibilities in the editorial columns of a last year's Magenta. I resolved never again to omit the reading of that invaluable paper. What I had discovered was no less than a new and practical idea on the subject of walking. I perceived that Middlesex County was a historic locality, that the philosophical walker should view it in this new light, and that the interest...
...order to keep this wonderful servant of the human will in perfect working condition. At home the majority of us learn only general maxims in this regard, such as, "Don't get in a perspiration and then stand in a draught," or "When you don't feel quite well omit a meal and give Nature a chance to recover"; but of the circulation of the blood, of the effects of different kinds of food on the system, of the working of the glands, of the relation of the various parts of the body, we know almost nothing. In school...
...evening prayers. It is true that the Theological Professors pray; but who else should pray? And, after all, what is the objection to their prayers? It is expressly admitted that the prayers will contain no matter of controversy, nothing to startle the most timid conscience. But then they will omit some peculiar doctrines. The objection is, not that they contain Sectarianism, but that they omit Sectarianism. That is the charge, that is the sin, and that is the truth...