Word: speake
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pursue the work. With regard to this veterinary school, the matter has never been written up in the papers, as it should have been done; no public interest has ever been awakened. Had the question been taken up as it should have been done, we know of what we speak in saying that a permanent fund of at least $100,000 could have been raised, and not with any great amount of labor...
...would be far pleasanter for instructors and students if the disagreeable noises which emanate from the steam pipes in certain lecture rooms might be remedied. A lecturer begins to speak and all the section to take notes, when, suddenly the steam goes whang, clash, bang. A lull ensues, and all the men huddle around the desk in vain endeavors to catch all that is said. Then the noise begins again, and continues with variations and slight interruptions throughout the hour, and perhaps day, Meanwhile the speaker is annoyed and listeners are distracted. Some remedy ought to be known...
...work a man may have done or left undone during the term is determined. It cannot but be unsatisfactory in almost every way. But it is particularly of the system of "cramming," now so much in vogue and which our examination system so carefully nurtures, that we wish to speak. It is absolutely certain, as things are here at present, that certain men will be absent from as many recitations as they dare, and will do little if any work on their courses up to the time for examination. Then with the aid of tutos and a few days...
...declare against it would perplex my best students. They would ask me which to give up, science or the Bible. There is a general progression in nature. The theory that the world was once a vapor from which the earth evolved is not consistent with the scriptures, for they speak of its being 'void without form.' The natural struggles for existence lead to the survival of the fittest, a most benevolent law, and also in accordance with the Scriptures. Man is so constituted with the faculties that God has given him that he learns by experience. Without order, of what...
...tell had now no chance. It was very necessary, therefore, that they should ask themselves whether they were following a wise system or not. A young man might pass creditably, nay, with distinction, through school and college, and find himself when he came to age unable to speak any language but his own, and ignorant of any branch of science, although, perhaps proficient in mathematics, Latin and Greek. Such an education, they might say with Locke, fitted a man for the university rather than for the world...