Word: sun
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...weather during the first half of the recess was as unpleasant as cold rains and low clouds and northeast winds could make it. But on Saturday there was a decided and most agreeable change. The change, however, of course had to have some drawbacks. For while the warm sun made the tennis nets and players sprout up profusely over Holmes and Jarvis, and started the struggling grass in the yard, it also brought up many weeds and muckers. These coarse plants were everywhere, and whoever passed among them seemed to hear them say, as they turned their foliage...
...government grounds. It is a pretty place - the yard - with green terraces and broad, asphalt walks. In front of the barracks a blue-coat with his musket on his shoulder is striding up and down, and a couple of brass howitzers standing on the terrace glisten in the sun. Hurrying by we stopped a moment in front of the handsome stone dry-dock, built in the presidency of the second Adams, and in which the "Pieter von Leninck" of the Red Star Line, was having her great sides scraped and painted. The party did not stop long to examine...
...other subjects. In the preliminary stage of instruction, no text book is used except by the teacher; the pupils are encouraged to obtain their ideas from actual observation and practice. They are told in a more or less general way about the cardinal points and the course of the sun and earth in the heavens. A mastery of this subject is given them, not by forcing them to commit the compass card to memory, but by telling them to find the direction of their own homes from the school room, and many other such practical ways. The teachers make tours...
...fever in our American colleges for starting congresses, houses of commons, and the like. The formation of such debating societies, which shall keep the students directly informed about the public business of the nation, is a very hopeful sign. The old societies used to discuss everything under the sun, except politics and religion, which were tabooed subjects. But now we have come over to the more sane idea that if we are ever to influence politics, we must learn as soon as possible to study political questions. There is no better way to make our politicians scholars, than to make...
...taught at Harvard, would sound like burlesque to those who learned Latin 20 or 30 years ago. Veni, vidi, vici, is pronounced wanee, wedee, weeke. This revolution is due to Prof. George M. Lane, who thinks he finds his authority for it in a careful study of Quintilian. - Cornell Sun...