Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Devil. In Dante the Devil is still powerless against the Almighty. He is chained up in the lowest circle of hell. It was in Milton that the Devil became truly grand. Here he is represented as comparatively free, warring against the Almighty, detiant even when conquered by superior force. I am far from joining in the general admiration for "Paradise Lost." The poem, except the part which deals with Satan, seems to me exceedingly formal and wanting in true inspiration. God and the whole heavenly council talk like the divines of the Westminster Assembly. Adam and Eve are a typical...
...students that the German department is by no means what it ought to be. President Eliot is known everywhere as a strenuous advocate of the modern theory of education which recognizes the fact that the usefulness of a knowledge of the living languages is of more value than the superior discipline which, it is claimed, the classics give; and it has been through his influence that the curriculum of the freshman year has been so changed as to make French or German practically the only prescribed study. And yet we do not hesitate to say that Harvard is weakest where...
...between making this year merely a repletion of last year, and consequently, seeing the society in danger of dying at the beginning of next year, (and the society has been in such danger at the beginning of every year) or making a bold push this year, running risks, offering superior inducements and better facilities, in which case success would mean that the society was permanently on its legs. They took the risk, hoping the students would respond to increased facilities. The students did not respond as heartily as was hoped ; the business, and the receipts from fees have consequently...
...writes. In the few lines I have quoted at the beginning of this paragraph, the may is an important word. Harvard merits the praise that is given her; but whether the substance of it is realized depends on the students themselves. As a college, Harvard offers the most superior advantages for education, in her library, laboratories and corps of instruction. Whether these advantages are properly appreciated or not must be proved by the number of highly educated, able, talented men that graduate at Cambridge. College men are of two classes, those who come to college for the sake...
...Capel recently said : "I have traveled much, and I have inspected schools and educational institutions in many lands but nowhere have I seen any training equal, much less superior, to that given at West Point...