Word: realing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...after-thought allow me to call to their minds the real intention and aim of class races, i. e., to prepare men for the 'varsity. It is fair to suppose that most of these Law School oars have either had their share of the 'varsity or never will have it. Therefore, on this ground their action is useless...
...higher education is the conviction that by so doing primary instruction is better secured. The higher education gave the tone and determined the character of the lower. The elementary schools in Germany were the best in the world, for the reason that they were the open doors to the real and burgher schools and the gymnasia. Primary schools in England have been a by-word because the chasm between the great endowed schools, colleges, and universities and the places for the instruction of the poor was as wide as that between Lazarus and Dives. Huxley had said that no system...
This would meet the cry of the students for more room and at the same time return to the college a larger sum as yearly rent than could be obtained by investing the money elsewhere in mortgages, real estate or bonds. To prove that this latter fact is clearly so we have only to cite the case of one of the dormitories in the yard. Take Matthews for an example. This building cost, twelve years ago, about $100,000, perhaps a little more. Its net returns for the year 1883 were nearly $10,000, almost 10 per cent...
...Louis Schmidt, Jr., played a "Fantansia Appassionata" for violin by Neutemps with a remarkable execution. It is of a class of compositions which have passed their day of great popularity, and while they are extremely well adapted to display the capabilities of the violin, are almost entirely devoid of real feeling...
...been well observed at their opening meeting, there was one side of our nature which science was the only means of cultivating. Our present system of secondary education demanded, it seemed to him, the careful and serious attention of parents, and, if not watched, would constitute a real danger for the country. He observed that Balliol College and New College, to whose co-operation they were so greatly indebted, had very wisely made it a condition that the instruction which they gave should be literary as well as scientific. He could say, "Would that all our education was scientific...