Word: practicall
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
THE absence of college men from public life, always a cause of more or less comment and wonder, has recently, by a high authority, been particularly mentioned and regretted in reference to Harvard. All of us, I think, regret it, and many of us are ambitious to some day increase...
When undergraduates remind us of "the generally acknowledged value of mathematics in mental discipline," we are inclined to quote Macaulay: "'Discipline' of the mind! Say, rather, starvation, confinement, torture, annihilation! I feel myself becoming a personification of algebra, a living trigonometrical canon, a walking table of logarithms. All my perceptions...
The absence of such a course in our curriculum is all the more blameworthy and unnecessary in view of the required studies which are still retained. Will any unbiassed mind prefer Trigonometry to Political Economy, either as regards the practical utility of the study or its value in training the...
There are other arguments, practical and moral, in favor of this plan, too numerous to be given in this article. It seems to me that from whatever standpoint you look at it this arrangement is desirable. It is politic, fair, and just, while the present plan is impolitic, - since it...
Yet we are not without consolation. We have qualified ourselves to appreciate other and higher joys than those which come merely from practical pursuits; and then, however cruel Fortune may be to us hereafter, she can never rob us of the pleasant memory of our stay there, and this surely...