Word: sphere
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reflection and, perhaps, conviction. English is declared unequal "academically" with Latin and Greek. A thorough knowledge of the classics is declared necessary, while History and Political Economy and subjects akin to them are reserved for later reading. Modern languages and Science are given the preparatory schools as their proper sphere. Whether the conservative ideas of President Porter have been formulated into the recent unquestionably radical reforms at Yale, or whether the changes were simply to aid the "outside individual efforts" of the students is an open question. But it is contended that the degree of Ph. D. covers...
...what strained. True, a little training in any subject is a dangerous thing, but when the modern languages and English studies follow after a solid foundation of the very learning on which the above studies are built, then putting mathematics aside, a man is well fitted for almost any sphere in life, be it law, medicine, science, or even a practical business career. The study of the classics provided it be not carried to far, gives an undoubted finish to a man's education that no other studies can impart. For mathematics, the foundation of a practical education fails...
...greater thought or care about what or how much we read. Some of us are bound to rank and marks, others to nothing, but how few of us have any definite method, beside cramming through a cunningly arranged series of examinations, by which to arrive as a higher intellectual sphere. Of course it only would be labor lost, either to argue with the "grind" or to seek to urge proper reading on many others, but the reading men are laying the best foundation and it is at college, if anywhere, that we must learn to accustom ourselves to books...
...which the divines of England are launching their stores of old saws, proverbs and "antediluvian nonsense," as Dr. Collier sensibly calls it, all opposition ought and eventually will cease. A letter from one of the leading ministers of England states that "women are inferior to men and consequently their sphere is different," with other statements of the same sort which are by no means arguments that women ought not to receive the same privileges for a certain amount of study as men. This opposition to the education of women is worthy of more early times, and certainly reflects little credit...
...often said that Oxford is the more famous of the two universities for movements and Cambridge for men, but the fact is that in most of the great movements for liberalizing the universities and extending their sphere of usefulness Cambridge has taken the lead and Oxford has reluctantly followed. The so-called "University Extension" movement is one conspicuous instance, and another was afforded by the debate in Congregation at Oxford on the proposal to open some of the university examinations to women. At Cambridge the women students have now for some few years enjoyed this privilege to the full...