Word: statement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which upperclassmen are given the privilege of substituting some optional course for conditions on certain. courses of freshman work, notably the required work in mathematics. To say that this radical change has been hailed with enthusiasm by the students most concerned in its operation is but a mild statement. As far back as student memory reaches, the mathematics of freshman year has been a thorn in the flesh to generations of incoming classes. It is almost appalling to attempt the task of estimating the number of mathematics conditions which have, like a cloud before the sun, obscured the prospect...
...Independent movement have laid great stress on the fact that the young men of the country, being more free from party habits and party bias, can see Blaine's record in its true light, and are refusing to vote for him. If we march with the Republicans, then, this statement is disproved ; if we march with the Independents and Democrats, this statement is proven true. Moreover, as shown by Mr. Warner in your issue of yesterday, it has not been custom, but tacit obedience to the wishes of the majority, that has led the students to march heretofore...
...entering class. Nor does the prosperity of the university end here. Owing to the fact that there will be over 500 students enrolled in the institution two new instructorships have been created. There is strong probability that there will be others established. There is good authority for the statement that a prominent friend of the university has recently donated 50,000 for the endowment of a professorship of moral philosophy ; and a gentleman prominent in that department has been tendered the position. The additions to Sibley College have been pushed during the summer months, and those at the Cascadilla place...
...students; it is an annoyance, not only to students, but to the residents of Cambridge who are unfortunate enough to be within sound of it. While it is not loud enough to be an effectual rising bell, it makes enough noise to be a disturbance, paradoxical as the statement may seem. Such a useless, and yet such an annoying custom ought most certainly to be put an end to at once, and we feel sure that every undergraduate would greet with satisfaction the announcement that future generations would be spared the infliction of listening to its notes in the early...
President Eliot, in an essay published in the Century of this month under the title of "What is a Liberal Education makes the statement: "The great majority of men in this country who belong to the intellectual professions are not liberally educated." Such a statement from such a source well deserves a thorough consideration. The cry "are our young men being educated for the work of the twentieth century or the seventeenth?" takes upon itself a new significance. It is no longer a question of whether Mr. Adams is right, but of the true meaning of a liberal education. There...