Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...used. But this idea, I fear, is becoming obsolete. I fear it is giving place to what seems to me to be a jumble of miscellaneous, high school, and professional teaching, with no power for the formation of character, that will not even aim at it, that must prevent the possibility of giving honestly a common diploma to those who graduate, and that will keep up forever the hungry cry for money from every college in the land...
...theory. The Association invited painters, sculptors, writers, and others to attend, and the crowded audience was thoroughly interested throughout. It is to be hoped that Dr. Waldstein's duties as Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge, England, and his lecture courses in the University there, will not prevent other visits, in the lecturing season, to his native city. The solid, and at the same time popular, instruction given by this scholarly and eloquent speaker is just what is needed in America to help direct aright the awakened taste for art in the community. Dr. Waldstein's lecture was repeated...
...faculty at Yale send their second admonition to parents or guardians in the form of registered letters, in order to prevent their interception by students or their interested friends...
...respect for their Alma Mater-more esprit de corps-more urbane manners. Students however, are not a class suigeneris. They are what their instincts and surroundings make them. An educated gentlemen is apt to be a gentleman even though he be a student; and being a student doesn't prevent him from being a rowdy, if he was born such. Mobs of course lose the human instinct; and we need not look to college-life to find examples of men who act like ruffians when in a crowd...
...merchant a boy must not go to college, but begin by sweeping out the store. We give little enough time for preparation as it is, without college authority for the forcing process. It is of course alleged, as the plea for these elective studies, that they are intended to prevent forcing, to save the student from attempting many things he cannot do, that he may do well the one thing he chooses to do. But this is at once a surrender of the principle of general education, a confession that knowledges have already increased beyond our powers of classification...