Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...point, however, deserves particular commendation. This is the evident effort to confine punning, pure and simple, to the "By the Way" column, so long avowedly devoted to the pursuit of that noble art. There is still room for improvement in the same line, but it is a long step in advance to purge the editorial page of such self-confessed twaddle as has at times appeared there, and to substitute for it the sound opinions on events of the day which appear in the present number...
...regulation, to be disappointed in their hopes of studying Philosophy and Psychology, two of the most interesting and important subjects in the whole range of our electives? The time of a Senior is valuable, at least to the Senior himself, and he rarely feels like consuming it in the pursuit of full courses which count for him only as halves...
After showing how his own temperament and the character of his home training induced Guyau, while still young, to follow the pursuit of philosophical studies, the lecturer dwelled for considerable time upon the philosopher's early promise and swift development. When nineteen he wrote a valuable book upon ethics and before he was thirty years of age he was considered the most prominent philosophical critic in France...
...Four years residence is not an excessive period.- (a) Purpose for a college course not merely the pursuit of knowledge.- (1) Physical advantages.- (2) Social advantages.- (3) Liberalizing and educating influence of residence at Harvard.- (b) The fourth year very often the one in which a man discovers his real aptitude: S. M. Macvane in Harv...
...this capacity his wise foresight gave to the Graduate School at its foundation the constitution which it has since retained without substantial change. In the years that followed he avoided on the one hand the iron conservatism common among the founders of systems, and on the other the restless pursuit of change characteristic of the professional reformer. He has devoted himself to an unceasing, patient and judicious study of the needs of the School, and he has been enabled thereby to introduce numerous improvements in administration. It shows the breadth of his mind that the multitude of administrative details which...