Word: teaches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have every advantage in courses which treat on politics, finance, history, and to some extent, constitutional and international law, the principles of the common law, which every man at one time or another exercises in his business, or civic relations, and as litigant or juror, the college neglects to teach...
...looking at the many colleges in the United States, one is led to compare them and inquire why it is that this particular college occupies a higher position than that. They are all engaged in similar work, have the same end in view, and teach mainly the same subjects. Why is it then that this one assumes, and has a right to assume, a title of supremacy over all the others? At first there seem to be many causes that act together to give this result. Fortunate location, rich endowments, noted professors, are some of them. One of the principal...
What does the college student want? Are his views communistic, socialistic, nihilistic? Does he claim that he can and should teach as well as learn, and that he and his instructor should be equal? Is he rapid in his ideas, and does he believe in the effectiveness of dynamite? To all these questions, no. The poor man, the laborer, the ignorant and idle citizen, may cry out for common living, for community of money, property, government, and even brains; but the college student is able to realize that two classes are the law of nature; that the instructor...
...object of the Shakspere club to teach the dramatic art to its members, and it was with this object in view that the performance of the play was decided on. An assignment of the parts in the customary manner, however, would defeat this aim. A few men would monopolize the important roles, and the rest would have so little to do that their parts would be of but little profit to them. By the plan of distribution that is adopted, this objection is as far as possible done away with. The strongest cast is not brought out in this...
This petty stealing of the property of a college paper speaks badly for the college tone, and as that is about all the faculty have left us, it behooves us to guard it well, and to teach men who are willing to decorate their rooms at the expense of a college institution, that such contemptible practices will not be tolerated. Though, of course, a man who is willing to proclaim himself a college thief from the walls of his room is beyond the influence of mere sentiment. For our part we guarantee that one "baby," whose name we have, shall...