Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...present day; and almost every one who has any knowledge of the sort of superintendence necessary to an educational institution would agree with the Michigan Faculty when they say that "the university can better afford to be without students than without government, order, and reputation." As to the main question of hazing, let us be thankful that nothing need be said to Harvard readers, and wish for our Western sister as peaceful a settlement of the disputed point as we have had here; though, were we to say anything, we should draw our strongest argument from Ann Arbor...
...three runs, and his three hours of fun; but the introduction of professional nines has reduced the game to a science, and made hard work out of exercise. Now a match is measured inversely as the score, and the good old "74 to 70 games" are out of the question. Cricket, on the other hand, is played much more than formerly. College papers speak of it with growing animation, and a new departure from our present favorite seems possible, if not desirable. We will not enter into the relative merits of the two games, but leave that for the zealous...
HAVING made you acquainted with the programme of secondary instruction, and given you some details of the organization and management of the Lyceums and Colleges, I should have done with this question, did I not wish to make a few observations upon the very basis of instruction...
...ever to be regretted war from which we have just emerged has apparently opened our eyes. The question is now asked whether our system of national education possesses in reality all the merits which we have been accustomed to attribute to it; whether, indeed, it is not possible that it was an element of our national weakness, and a cause of our reverses...
...present time the question of reform is in order. Everybody feels that there is something to be done; modifications to be adopted, antiquities to be suppressed, new methods to be introduced. Still, there is fear and hesitation. In France, you know, we know not how to make reforms; we make revolutions...