Word: parteing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...what is known as the Christian world, who build much upon ritual and the reverence due to antiquity, will suffer grievously, - a fact which deserves to be considered by all sentiment-destroyers. We must lose, too, or rather throw away, as useless and not money-making, that large part of history which teaches us so little, being mainly occupied in pandering to our taste for sentiment of a venerable sort, which has come down unharmed through many years...
...gift of nature. The more manifest reasons that the so-called funny writings are not favorably received in college journals is, because they appear to have no point to them; or if they have their applications, they are so poorly carried out, either by inability on the part of the writer or by his seemingly forgetting his primary object, that the interest awakened at the beginning gradually fails. It is difficult for the college writer to find worthy objects for his wit, and nearly as difficult to carry through that wit consistently to the end. Since the readers...
...more. The competition of the state destroys private enterprise. The state has at its disposition large resources, because it can draw on the purses of tax-payers. It can have installations more magnificent, and consequently professors more capable than the private individual, who cannot risk but a certain part of his capital Nor is this all. You can, it is true, teach whatever you choose in these private schools, but the University courses are directed by the government. You are forced to follow the plan of study fixed upon for the examinations for your baccalaureat. The University alone confers...
...esteem the Williams Review too highly to allow the slightest break in our friendly relations through any fault of ours, and therefore hasten to apologize for anything that may have given offence in our last notice of the Review. There was a misunderstanding on our part as to the spirit of its notice of us, but as the animus of our squib was not very malicious, we hope to be easily forgiven...
...regret that my remarks about the present Senior Class should have been apparently misinterpreted. I thought of it merely as a small part of the educated young men of the country, and hoped, by mentioning it in particular, to strike nearer home...