Word: things
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Athens ought to comprise Dartmouth. It was expected that we should join it. A committee of the faculty was appointed to raise funds ($150 a year) to secure the membership of the college, but for some reason we have been given to understand that it would be an unwise thing to try to raise money for the purpose just now. Is there no one in your large and wealthy body that can enable Dartmouth College to join an association which not only Yale, and Harvard, and Amherst, and Williams, but also Wesleyan and, if I am not mistaken, Tufts, have...
...curious thing in connection with the opening of Cornell University this year is the fact that more students have registered the second term than in the first, an occurrence without parallel in the history of the institution...
Appleton Chapel. Rev. William J. Tucker, of Andover Theological Seminary, 7.30 P. M. "Which thing is true in Him and in you."-1 John...
...closing my last article I quoted from the opinion of the faculty of the Berlin University, written in 1869, to the effect that the modern languages do not furnish a substitute for the ancient languages, "for, since as a rule the only thing aimed at in their study is a certain facility of use, they cannot serve in equal manner as an instrument of culture." In this quotation, I said, the keynote of the whole question was struck. We must keep the ancient languages in our colleges as they furnish the only successful instrument of culture. I do not believe...
...average accomplish more. It is the general experience that the foretastes of these sciences obtained in the Realschule frequently dulls rather than stimulates eagerness for knowledge. Still less are the modern languages able to take the place of Greek and Latin; for, since as a rule the only thing aimed at in their study is a certain facility of use, they cannot serve in equal manner as an instrument of culture. The main point is that the instruction given in the Realschule lacks a central point; hence the unsteadiness in its system of teaching. It embraces a collection of studies...