Word: thinge
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...gardners or coachmen? There are plenty of places waiting for these young men - our national politics offer a tremendous field for the high spirited and intelligent; and even if it is "English" for the sons of noble families to go in for politics for the glory of the thing, why don't the college men at the same time make so good a custom American...
...university for the bold spirit of experiment that has led to the recognition of the difference in value between the traditional, customary, and conventional methods, inherited from previous generations, and the new, fresh, original methods, that contribute their share to the advance of the age. Any thing, he said, rather than stagnation in educational matters. Certainly there is no stagnation at Harvard, and the many changes of the last fifteen years seem only to prepare the way for more...
...have yet seen from those who advocate the giving of this degree to indicate simply the completion of a four year's course of study, remind me of those used by the wolf when he had determined to eat the lamb; having made up their minds to do a thing - for reasons of expediency, perhaps - they justify their action by the best arguments within the reach of a bad cause...
...Bachelor of Philosophy had studied little or no Greek, more rarely no Latin. In no case did the degree claim to represent even a minimum of culture. In this sense all degrees were and always will be more or less indefinite. But let us not mix up two things that are so easily kept separate, and which ought to be so kept. All experience proves that now and then a student only wastes time by trying to learn a foreign language, and that he may nevertheless attain a fair degree of scholarship in other departments. Some students who make little...
...suggest themselves whenever a university club is mentioned. Both sides of the question will receive better appreciation, I am sure, if their partisans will tell us, as definitely as can be, the nature of that about which they reason as confidently as if it were a tangible and familiarly thing...