Word: result
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...more than this, the freshman work is excessively subdivided as to topics; and that greater confusion and distraction of mind does not result among the men is really a matter for wonder. While these things are so, while the freshman course remains so arbitrary and unattractive in so many respects, and while its scope is so diffused and its arrangement so incoherent, it is to be expected that men will be driven to partially neglect certain subjects, and then to resort to the cramming system to save themselves at the end, whether the subjects be taught by lectures...
...impossible work, but to one already well begun. The resort to Harvard grows more and more national, in spite of the extraordinary multiplication of colleges. It is today less of a Massachusetts university, more of a Middle State and Western State university, than it ever was before. This excellent result your zeal will further. That not only Harvard, but several other strong universities East and West, North and South, should have a truly national representation of the people of the United States, is an object which every patriot must earnestly desire, for in the common character of large bodies...
...NEWS WAS RECEIVED.When the news reached Mrs. Garfield she was quiet and composed. When the result was read at the Opera House and Academy of Music in Cleveland the audience rose and cheered. In New York the verdict was the universal topic of conversation, and people congratulated each other wherever the news was heard. In Washington the result was universally approved and the jury highly commended. In fact, the news spread over the country like wild-fire, and was received on all sides with satisfaction...
...class-room. Especially is this true in the case of the younger instructors, in whom the remembrance of the trials and discouragements that often beset a man at college, is still sufficiently alive to enable them to appreciate the value of friendly advice and cheering support. The result of this is to inspire in men a greater interest in their own welfare, they know that others are active in assisting their success; they acquire increased confidence in their capabilities, and a self-reliance and determination that are only too often lost in the many anxieties of college life...
...university. Commenting upon the disadvantages of the method of strict regulations and supervision imposed upon students at Yale, he says: "No efficient seat of learning can, with any endowment which any American college now possesses or hopes to possess, undertake anything approaching to parental care of the students. . . . The result [of ceasing to attempt this] will be greater care in the selection of boys for college education. It will cease to be a matter of course to send boys to college whenever the father can afford it. Boys who have no strong love of study, and whose self-control...