Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...such manner as either to help or overthrow any politician. Its officers have nothing to do with Butler's chances at the polls, or with his popularity as a demagogue. Their duty is simply to see that the university suffers no damage as an institution of learning and a teacher of morals. It is dedicated to "Christo et Ecclesiae," and has "Veritas" for the motto on its coat-of-arms; and what has Butler to do with Christ and His Church or with "Truth?" If it discovers that in giving a degree to a particular person the college will impair...
...Germany and northern France being modeled after the University of Paris, and those in Italy and southern France after the University of Bologna. Originally they were not universities, in the modern sense of the term. The nucleus of the modern university was merely a gathering of pupils around a teacher of eminence and repute, whom they supported by fees. The teacher, who was called "doctor" or "magister artum," had no power of conferring degrees. If he was a lecturer of great repute pupils flocked around him, and then, finding himself unable to do the necessary work, he chose a colleague...
...Teacher: "Why, how stupid you are, to be sure! Can't multiply 88 by 24. I'll wager that Charles can do it in less than no time." Pupil: "I shouldn't be surprised. They say that fools multiply very rapidly now-a-days." [University Press...
...University of Michigan advocates free trade enthusiastically; it is advocated by both faculty and students. At Williams the majority of the faculty are protectionists, but Prof. Perry, the teacher of political economy, is a very decided free trader, as is also his son, an instructor there. The senior class number twenty-seven in favor of his doctrine, and thirteen opposed to it. Two-thirds of the class of '80 were protectionists; '81 showed a majority of free traders, also '82 and '84. Harvard and Yale teach the free trade theory, while Princeton is just now in an unsettled state...
...speak of Oxford and Cambridge, in England. Ezra Cornell, himself not a liberally educated man, gave one of the best definitions of a university when he said that he would found an institution where anybody could learn anything. On the side of teaching, we have not enough teachers. At Harvard more is thought than ever of the importance of producing effect on character, of training men to respect themselves and rely on themselves. It used to be said that the college stood the student 'in loco parentis.'" The speaker did not accept this theory, inasmuch as there are various kinds...