Word: suspecting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...relations between the institutions, that it causes the weakening of the intellectual fibre of the Harvard men who have courses at Radcliffe, is answered by Professor Byerly with a list of twenty-five professors "of whom the University and her sons are justly proud, and whom no one can suspect of being intellectual degenerates, and yet they" he adds, "and they only, are the Harvard instructors who have taught for ten years or more at Radcliffe. Surely Professor Wendell's opinion is strangely at variance with the facts, and perhaps we need not yet despair of the University...
...have been pained to learn, from graduates in different parts of the country, that the men whom the Republic is about to expose to bullets and yellow fever suspect this University community of lukewarm loyalty to the country which it has served so often and so simply. If we can not all of us join these men, let us at least not insult them by saying that their lives are less valuable than ours. If we can not convince them that we are patriotic, let us at least not convince them that we are cads...
...system of education. Professor Palmer's "doubts" arise in the attempt to answer the question - Are the aims of university extension practicable? On this point, he says: "We cannot with certainity say that they are not, but it is here that doubts arise, - doubts of three sorts: those which suspect a fundamental difference in the two countries [England and America] which try the experiment; those which are incredulous about the permanent response which our people will make to the education offered; and those which question the possibility of securing a stable body of extension teachers." In regard to the first...
...have seen so far into the deeps of motive as some of her successors, and may not have been able to trace the influence of circumstance upon character with as unerring skill, yet within her range-a range too, that is much wider than her superficial readers suspect-she has no equal...
...athletic associations who are in college. It means that such men, while they are students, must be passed by the director of the Heminway Gymnasium before they can represent their other association in a public contest. It is a rule which we shall not attempt to criticize; but we suspect that, if our interpretation is correct, it will bring about many perplexing cases. Every student ought to know these rules; if they are just, then obey them without further words; if they are unjust, a general protest will be very effective...