Word: rates
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...highest intellectual work of the world. Until within a few years, no attempts have been made to furnish instruction to graduates, not so much because our Universities were unwilling or unable to do so, as because there were few young men who desired it; however, at Harvard, at any rate, the number of resident graduates is steadily increasing, for at present we have more than forty, not including, I think, those who avail themselves of our laboratories, museums, and libraries. Harvard, therefore, can well be proud of her record in past and present; but if "Hopkins" is well managed...
...argument may be required for examination. You will rarely find a good scholar who grumbles at being forced to pay attention to "the details of grammar, of philology, of history, of geography," etc.; in fact, the scholarly mind often takes great pleasure in them, or at any rate recognizes their necessity as the very foundation of a right understanding of the author's meaning. Usually, the only complaint is that too much time is spent on the details of grammar, and it is admitted that philology, history, and geography are sometimes both interesting in themselves and helpful in discovering...
...Englishman of moderate means has one great advantage over the American, - he can buy good books of the best authors at a reasonable price. There are hundreds of entertaining and instructive shilling books, not to mention the respectable library one could collect at the rate of sixpence a volume. The leading publishing houses issue at times "libraries," as they call them, of famous authors, in paper covers, it is true, but printed on fair paper and in good type; these "libraries," comprising history, science, and fiction, furnish good reading at prices within the reach of every one who wants...
Professor Child purposes to read four or five of Shakspere's plays, at the rate of a play in four or five readings; he will then read from Chaucer...
...institutions. One good one is better than five poor ones. It is not certain, however, that it is true that one large one is better than five small ones." He thinks, too, that "the bottom of all difficulties in the higher education here . . . . is the difficulty of obtaining first-rate teachers in large enough numbers." This difficulty seems to have been overcome at Harvard; for of all the Colleges in the United States which this Directory mentions, we have the largest number of "Officers of Instruction and Government...