Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...took up his scientific work where he left off The first notice of his sickness was on Monday, Nov. 28, when, upon attempting to raise his arm, he found it impossible, and it was soon discovered that paralysis had developed to an alarming extent, and that it was a question of but a short time, when this master mind and robust body must leave his life's work and pass beyond...
...With your leave I will answer your third question first...
...Yale's decadence in athletics was at tacked as the reason of it. The same fault is being found at Harvard now, and, although the society system there is widely different from Yale, it undoubtedly lies at the bottom of much of the existing dissatisfaction there. That the society question is a live one at Yale still is shown by the fact that both of the senior statisticians have asked for candid opinions on the subject. The alumni, too, have taken an interest in the matter and have been working to remedy the evils. One of the greatest troubles...
...points out the good tendencies of the method now recognizable. The endeavors of the faculty to improve the teaching of elementary science in the secondary schools is next touched upon, and the results of voluntary chapel exercises come in for a word of comment. On this much-mooted question, President Eliot says: "The experience of the year indicates that all these services can be usefully and honorably maintained on the method of voluntary attendance. Religious interest among the students has undoubtedly increased with the abandonment of prescribed attendance, and the serious-minded students have now the wholesome feeling that they...
...answer to the question "Why has Harvard so poor a reputation in the country at large," President Eliot said that, in his opinion, it was largely owing to religious grounds. Forty years ago Harvard was a sectarian college belonging to the Unitarians, who were then greatly disliked by other denominations. Although Harvard is no longer sectarian, religious hatred still makes men ready to believe anything bad which may be said of it, while they refuse to credit any representations to the contrary. Then, too, we have more rich men's son's here than any other college possesses, and rich...