Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard graduates scholars, but our smaller colleges graduate men," is a remark not unfrequently heard. Many a boy has been sent to Amherst or Dartmouth because his parents, although acknowledging the superior educational advantages of Harvard, have thought to keep their sons from the corrupting influences of a great university. But one may fairly ask what goes to make up manhood? If withdrawal from temptations, association with none but the strictly virtuous, blissful ignorance of vice make a man, then Harvard indeed does not graduate men. There is vice here, much of it, and he is blind who does...
...which preceded the first mentioned work. The playing throughout was very good. Some slight unsteadiness, particularly in the inner parts, was observed at times, but was of rare occurence. In the Beethoven quartet, the rendering was much superior to some of the work done earlier in the series. The audience was appreciative of all but the last number, which proved rather too difficult of comprehension...
...evening before the examination the expectant candidate invites his most intimate friends, and the night is spent in merry toasts and numberless bottles of champagne. Herein the German student shows how superior is his mind to that of our college man who sits up all night with nothing to cheer him but a cup of cold coffee and a wet cloth around his aching head. Arrayed in dress coat and white gloves, the candidate, followed by several of his friends, appears before the august assembly of professors. After an interchange of civilities in Latin and profound reverential bows, the student...
...only subordinate importance; and the student is made almost entirely dependent on his careful attention, quick perception and selective faculties to obtain in proper shape a digest of the instructor's lectures. These digests, together with the results of outside reading, give the student a collection of facts far superior to the best of the text books. This may be said advisedly for the first effect of the concentration of mind in taking notes is to make an impression on the brain, which when appealed to by the notes in review gives them almost the freshness of spoken words. Then...
...have undertaken to make the number unusually attractive and entertaining, and the real success of their efforts must be gratifying to them and to the college. In reading matter and illustration, the Christmas Lampoon excels all previous numbers of the present year, and in some respects, at least, is superior to the best numbers that we have seen of former years. General attention will undoubtedly be directed toward the double-page drawing, which, while being well conceived, is also exceedingly well executed, the whole sketch having a truly artistic appearance...