Word: statement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...printed an article on "Our Ranking System," suggesting remedies for what many men have long felt to be either a mistaken policy, or an injustice on the part of the faculty. In your issue of February 11, a correspondent, in arguing against your "third reform," makes the following statement: "This reformer would destroy the advantages of the elective system by placing a premium upon a superficial education, such as is to be obtained in the prescribed course which most American colleges require. Under the reform which is suggested, the specialist is triumphed over by the superficialist, which is exactly contrary...
...Boston. During his first year in college, Emerson was the "president's freshman," doing his errands and making his announcements for him. He was at this time "a slender, delicate youth, younger than most of his classmates, and of a sensitive, retiring disposition." He received, according to his own statement, but little instruction or criticism from his professors that was of value to him. His favorite study was Greek, and his translations of the classical authors were neat and happy. In mathematics he made no headway, and he did not succeed very well in philosophy. He was a great reader...
...Boston Herald is authority for the statement that "amateur umpires" will be the next phase that the antiprofessional crusade at Harvard will assume...
...recently a Professor so bold as to translate your English John Mill was forced to take the long Siberian exile. Only a few years ago, in the study of Roman history, the Roman Republic was required to be either entirely eliminated or else passed over with the general statement that, "after Tarquinius the Roman people became unruly, and revolted against the legal authorities. A time of hideous disturbance followed until Julius Caesar appeared." In the interest of Russian "law and order, " it was forbidden too at that time to paint Nero and Caligula in anything but rosy colors. Even...
SENIOR FORENSICS.Third forensic, due on March 19. Subject: 1. Does the history of progress favor utilitarianism? 2. May virtuous acts be defined as those which tend to produce happiness? 3. "You cannot make men moral by Act of Parliament" (comment on this statement). 4. Should district and State boundaries be obliterated or ignored in the election of representatives and senators in the United States? 5. Compare Grant and Lee as military commanders...