Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...develop partisanship, but to stimulate into activity the convictions of the republican students. Membership in the club shows a man's devotion to the principles in which he believes-principles which seem to him essential to the welfare of his country. Politics and religion are both vital subjects. The rule of the University has not been to disallow privileges to religious organizations of one sect or another, on the ground that some of them must be wrong, and therefore all must be excluded. The rule has been, rather, that all should be given the use of the University buildings...
...work, and are, at best, only half fit to undertake new work. About this fact, no full testimony can be given, and yet we believe that it is a general conviction, rooted in wide experience, that the men who take the highest rank in college are not, as a rule, the most powerful in after life...
...weakens the principle of majority rule by enabling a minority belonging to the dominant party to determine legislation...
...exact sciences differ so much from actual work in the outside world that training in the former seems to make a man useless for the latter, for exact science calls for consideration of every detail, while in life we have as a rule no further calculations than rough approximations of probabilities. This fact tends to make the man trained in science hesitate when any question comes up, weighing so long the advantages and disadvantages of any plan of action that he cannot bring himself to act in any definite way. What then are the advantages of a scientific training, what...
...Science which for two decades has perhaps reared more academic buildings than existed before; which is coming to underlie all the arts of peace and war, and to train the experts who in more and more fields now rule the world, is now again giving to universities greatly enlarged functions, new problems, and almost a new meaning to the very word 'university.' That this new situation will be duly appreciated by a fair proportion of the one thousand millionaires in our land, and by legislators as well as by those who have set their hearts and minds upon the progress...