Word: particulars
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...often been said, the first essential for success is sincerity. By sincere writing I mean that into which you have put part of yourself. Like most short definitions, this one means both too much and too little. But when applied to particular cases, it will be limited, or stretched...
Yale is determined to be ahead of Harvard in one particular at all hazards. Early in the term a meeting will be held by all the students to vote on the question of having morning chapel at 7.30 instead of 8.10 as hitherto. The object is that all the students may have two hours free from recitations in the afternoon. The faculty have agreed to make the change, provided the students determine upon...
...That the already recognized propriety and justice of not enforcing attendance upon prayers in the case of some whose religious faith is not in harmony with the particular observance, tend to show the impropriety and injustice of making such attendance compulsory...
Therefore we need some general substitute, not only for written examinations, but for the special tests, already suggested, which may soon be diminished in many courses, owing to a corresponding change in the nature of these studies. Moreover, these substitutes must be in each case fitted to the particular character of the subject. This seems a hard problem, and perhaps would be, had it not, like many other urgent questions, begun to solve itself. Everyone has noticed the growing importance of thesis-writing in college; it is now acknowledged to be necessary to the pursuit of such studies as Philosophy...
...Anglomania is not to be decried. But does the Anglomaniac ever have such an excuse? Does he ever think of worth and virtue? We think not. As we conceive him, he is a man who follows English customs, solely because they are English, not because they are in any particular way good. For him we know no better name than "The Englishman's Ape." This apeing English ways was what we protested against in a former editorial; our protest was against Anglomania as being nothing but apeing. Indeed we are doubtful if any higher and more complimentary meaning...