Word: rightly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...many to scholastic ways. When Paris attempted to make herself a power as a University, the civil authority decided to put the Bishop's secretary in supervision. This Chancellor was the accredited official who was to grant the licenses for teaching. This was the extent of his power. The right to teach extended throughout the civilized world, except in a few isolated instances. There was an association of the graduates at Paris, and as time went on the power of the Chancellor was taken from him and put in the hands of this association. This revolution was effected with...
Oxford was founded on the structure of the Paris university. The university was considered as an upstart for the men of the middle ages believed that Germany had the empire, Italy the prince and France the schools. What right had England to set up a university? The struggle in 1265 when Simon de Mont Fort established the House of Commons, created a great excitement at Oxford, and the influence wielded by the students was great. The right of clergy which it is well known existed in the middle ages has not yet died out, but only last year an undergraduate...
...Undergraduate exercises, President Eliot with great courtesy gracefully resigned his right to preside to the president of the senior class...
...semicentennial reunions." The plan was to divide each page of the book into halves vertically. On the left division the graduates were to sign their names as they left college, and those who were present at the class meeting fifty years later were to place their signatures in the right hand division on the same line that they had fifty years before written the same name. Besides this, all living graduates were asked to sign or send their signatures. The result is that this book is rich in valuable signatures dating from 1669 on. The oldest of these is that...
...asks? Let her remember, let her know that Christ is law as well as truth; Christ is righteousness as well as revelation. The Christhood which is yesterday, to-day and forever is the perpetual utterance of the unchanging ordinance of God, that only through the doing of the right does man come to the knowledge of the true. Let, then, the college which seeks the highest truth in Christ accept the necessity of righteousness as the sole doorway and avenue to it. We miss the great conviction in too much of our university history. In the multitude of our police...