Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...there reason to believe that prison reform legislation and discipline tend to increase rather than diminish crime? (Consult article by Andrews in recent Forum...
President Eliot opened the discussion by commending the action of the Boston and Roxbury Latin Schools in "dipping down" and taking men early from the grammar schools. The reason that only one-third of the men who enter Harvard come from public schools is that American parents are unwilling that their children should go through the public school course of nine years. The grammar schools can be improved by introducing languages earlier in the course when children take to them more readily, and by introducing geometry, algebra, and natural science. The grammar schools will continue their low standard as long...
...which Yale beat last Saturday 46-0. Still the fact that the game with Yale was only a week ago affords a good opportunity for comparing the work of the Williams men against us with their work against Yale, and the game will be especially interesting for that reason...
...stars. To many men it is not sufficient to say that of course the laws of nature always hold, and that force will always produce the same effects. These men will answer that because they may spend a life time in trying to appreciate the beauty and reason in the universe, and even then be literally almost as ignorant about them as they ever were, they cannot satisfy themselves in the least, by physical or metaphysical theories about formation and perpetuation. What delights their minds in the contemplation of unchangeable laws and ever-changing beauty, and fills them with...
...thought to many is that the universe produces nothing ugly. Aside from the beauty of exactness and invariability that the laws of Creation have for mathematical minds in particular and for du ler ones in a less degree, the visible manifestations of the infinite Reason are the most familiar parts of human existence. There is little need of presenting any of these pictures, and yet their very familiarity makes them often unimpressive and obscures much of their splendor. The night, with its stars moving with in evitable accuracy or a day of sunlight or one of clouds and wind...