Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...certainly does not compare favorably. It is illiberal and expensive. The English university is not national property in the true sense. Being under the control of the church of England it is necessarily sectarian in its character, and does not by any means heed public sentiment at all times. On the other hand the German university is liberal to the greatest extent, meets the intellectual wants of the people and is less expensive...
...Cott, left defence; Dusenberry, first defence; Clements, centre; Huntington, first home; Channing, second home; Jones, left home; Pipinsky, right home; Wolf, home; Carrere, goal. Our correspondent writes: "The team men say that the prospects for this season are better than ever before." "One word as to the general sentiment towards lacrosse-nearly every one is opposed to the game, and all refuse to support the team...
...even withdraw from some of the positions already taken, or else Yale must abandon her cautious conservatism and stand abreast of her venturesome rival. Meanwhile, there is no denying the fact that the bulk of undergraduate opinion at Yale favors Harvard on this question." The drift of such a sentiment, we believe, shows very clearly the inevitable tendencies of the day, and its significance is by no means small. The discussion of these two ideas of the American university, carried on by the writer we have quoted, we cannot undertake to follow. The arguments for and against the elective system...
...wealth to the advancement of letters than the United States; and in no part of our own land is there a greater munificence than in Massachusetts. Its citizens ennoble the acquisition of riches by devoting their affluence to the service of popular beneficence. Generosity has become a public sentiment. Indeed, it is already proverbial that no rich New Englander would dare to imperil his future happiness by failing to make a bequest to Harvard. This wise benevolence, so nobly characteristic of the public spirit of this Commonwealth, will yet enrich the foundations of Harvard beyond English precedent. Ampler revenues, increasing...
...scheme. "It is uneconomical in theory," he says, "and impossible in practice, to provide a second series of colleges equal in extension and education force to those already in existence. Seclusion in the education of women means weakness, and weakness means continued subjection to a faulty conventional sentiment; seclusion means inferiority...