Word: said
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...since competition is not free, how do we know that the learning is superior? Any method of assigning scholarships except according to scholarly merit cannot fail of being demoralizing in proportion as the assignment is influenced by a regard for the circumstances of the applicant. It may be said that a change in the present system would have no different result, that the same men would take the scholarships as take them now. This may be very true, but there is no proof of it, since competition is not open. Until this is the case, a man who takes...
Oxford and Cambridge.- Oxford University is preparing to elect a new Professor of Poetry in the place of Sir Francis Doyle. Most of the students, it is said, would like to have Matthew Arnold...
...that the prosperity of a country depends upon the farmers, and that the cultivation of the soil ought to go hand in hand with the cultivation of the mind. He did not close without censuring the corruption of the times. The children of the so-called old families, he said, inherit more vices than virtues, and he wished to have it clearly understood that while some more favored collegians [sic] indulge in aristocratic amusement, the boys of Orono did not "squander their time and money in the gilded halls of vice." (Applause...
...second class, the Ungulates, comprises all those who, having squeaking or heavy shoes, seem to be ever desirous of making all the noise possible either with said shoes or else by keeping up a constant buzzing with their tongues, like flies in fly-time. Their answers to all questions are, invariably, "You must use your own judgment about it," or, "What! you don't mean to say you don't know that? well, I am surprised!" And so they play their part...
...College matters in Boston papers, and have long since given up complaining about the "Harvard Gossip" furnished by the correspondent of the Saturday Evening Gazette; but when one reads, in the Transcript, an editorial devoted to proving that Harvard students are "social roughs," it is time that something was said in our defence...