Word: realing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...answers. If a man really knows a subject, he is pretty certain to do badly when examined in it. A thorough knowledge of a subject absolutely prevents it from being compressed into the answers to a few questions. It is only the smatterer who can do this; the real student, with all the details, the arguments for and against, the side views, and dependent hypotheses before him, finds that he must write a book if he would answer only a single question adequately, and that to require him to jot down even the outlines of answers to half a dozen...
...also arouses a little bit of poetic feeling in even the most prosaic mind. One has to acknowledge that all the grounds of the Episcopal School need to make them the most pretty and attractive grounds in Cambridge, is that they be associated with some purpose, with some real life, with which they can hardly be said to have association now; and one also recognizes that no better purpose and no truer activity could be established there than those embodied in the Annex. It is quite true, too, that for the Annex no prettier, no more appropriate, no more convenient...
...those whose aim is mental and moral and those whose aim is physical excellence, the bad and false and the good and sincere, are all commingled in the different college classes. And they but form a world in miniature, differing not at all in its inward nature form the real and large world; so that to be among them is only to be schooled for the wider association that must come later. For the character of college students can differ very little, if at all, and to see and know what men are and what they may and ought...
These benefits of a college course may to some seem rather theoretical and intangible; but surely they are quite real. They are influences acting silently and secretly but still forcibly. They are benefits which, though unseen, are yet almost key-notes of life, as the force of gravity is the key-note of the life of the universe. To them we may also add the sociableness and friendships, always attendant upon a college career, and the critical nature and power of clear discernment, which seem to belong to college men, and by which a student is so quickly and generally...
...value, and other unfortunate circumstances, the university will realize less than $700,000 from this magniflcent be quest. Amasa Stone gave $600,000 to Adelbert College by direct gift and by bequest. W. W. Corcoran gave $170,000 to Colombian University in money and land. Benjamin Bussey gave real estate worth $500,000 to Harvard University. Samuel Williston, William J. Walker, and Samuel A. Hitchcock gave between $100,000 and $200,000 each to Amherst College. Whitmer Phoenix gave the bulk of his property, amounting to about $640,000 to Columbia College. J. B. Trevor gave $179,000 to Rochester...