Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...from President Porter than the subject of outside reading. It is claimed that a college is not to be held responsible for the individual culture attained by its students through their own endeavors. While it is not acknowledged that a liberal education is or can be free from a thorough basis upon the classics, it is asserted that a determined student will make up by outside reading any failure in the instruction given him. This appears to be the point of the reply to President Eliot. The necessity of a liberal education is allowed. A possibility of there being...
...Harvard Union, on another page. They have announced a place where everybody who has not yet voted can do so. This arrangement is an admirable one and cannot fail to draw out a full vote from the college. It is useless to dwell on the importance of obtaining a thorough canvass, and this can only be done if the individuals who have not yet been visited by members of the committee are willing to appear at the appointed place and vote...
...constantly made to Mr. Norman's book, and also to our own Professor, J. W. White, whose work on "Rythmic and Metric" is the basis of Mr. Jebb's metrical criticisms. In the appendix are notes on the Harvard performance of the play of which Mr. Jebb says "The thorough scholarship, the archeological knowledge and the artistic skill which presided over that performance invest the record of it with a permanent value for every student of the play." The thorough scholarship and the peculiar interest of this volume to Harvard men should make it a popular one here. The need...
...absence of manual work in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale is criticised as it gives, says the report, a theoretical tone in the instruction. Of the department of Practical Science at Brown University, he observes that "hitherto it has been chiefly distinguished for its thorough training in chemical science, as applied to the industrial arts, the effects of which have been largely felt and appreciated in the industries of the district, namely, bleaching, calico printing and papermaking...
...Michigan, on request of its school board, and report the result of its examination to the faculty. If this examination shows that the courses of study in the visited school embrace all the subjects required for admission to the university, and that the instructors are competent to give a thorough preparation in those branches, all graduates from the school are admitted to the freshman class of the university upon presentation of their diplomas, within three months after graduation...