Word: practicall
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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The University at present offers to its students what is called a liberal education. The departments of instruction are so varied that one can either dip lightly into many subjects, or make himself proficient in a specialty. The student who intends to read law can lay a foundation in history...
Now, if the University should offer a course for those who intend to devote their life to business, a course that should include instruction in practical banking, book-keeping, and the principles of commerce, a great many students would be able to prepare for their future career. And such a...
It may be objected that this is not the proper aim for a university, and that instruction of this kind belongs to the commercial college. But surely, the fact that more than half the graduates in every class go into business, and that the others have more or less to...
THE Yale crew hope to beat Harvard next year by a new stroke, which is pronounced by some who have seen it to be the first practical stroke Yale has ever adopted. The old hang at the end of the stroke is abolished, and several crooked little points are also...
"Neither the Harvard Divinity School, nor any divinity school in this country or in England, exists simply for the cultivation of theology as a science. All these institutions . . . exist for the much more practical purpose of training ministers, and most of them ministers for particular denominations. . . . We are sure President...