Word: ripe
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...final arrangement of these games is very gratifying. It brings about a state of affairs for which, as best for the athletic interests of both colleges, Harvard and Yale graduates have been steadily working. It would seem that the time is now ripe for Harvard and Yale to make certain agreements under which, for a stated period of years, athletic contests between the two colleges should take place; in other words to bring about the consummation of a dual league...
...account of the plan for University Extension at Harvard, which appeared in Saturday's DAILY CRIMSON, has awakened much interest in the college. The time seems ripe for such an undertaking. In fact a general American "Society for University and School Extension" is already in existence. The officers for the year, among whom will be recognized several of the best known and broadest minded educators in the country are: President, Rev. Timothy Dwight, D. D.; Executive Committee, the President ex officio, Rev. Francis L. Patton, D. D., Dr. Seth Low, W. A. Calkins, Dr. W. T. Harris, and Seth...
...many-sidedness of Kant's thought, the lecturer said, has in the first place made the difficulty of completely understanding him so enormous that the reading of the "Critique of Pure Reason" has become a sort of liberal profession in Germany. The age in which Kant lived was ripe for the "Critique" In twenty-five years it so thoroughly won over to metaphysics a nation previously little given to philosophy that Heine said; "God has given France the land, England the sea, but to Germany He has given the dominion...
...vent in the platitudes of average commencement parts. The crying need in this country is for the development of the "modern scholar" in the true sense of the word. By means of the elective system and of advanced courses, Harvard is unabled to bring about in its graduate students ripe thought and well developed scholarships. The aim is attained by a vital and manly culture which enables each man to make use of his education as a means of entering into the active life of the nation at large by actual contact in public life and by conducting the work...