Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Inglesant" they are charmed, and one of them, through ten pages of the Vassar Miscellany, indulges in an acute psychological analysis of the book-an analysis, by the way, that is exceedingly well done. If one were to judge from the Miscellany one must conclude that the tone of thought at Vassar is predominatingly literary and philosophical. As an exponent of this turn of mind the Miscellany is very successful and might furnish an interesting subject of study for one curious to mark the stage of development in the higher education of women reached at Vassar. It displays a bracing...
Answers are required to these questions in accordance with a statute of Connecticut. It is thought that the work of the police in identifying criminals in after years will thereby be greatly lightened...
...professional roughs with their betting and drinking to the grand show, in all of which study is neglected, and must be neglected, is an abomination of the first order. It is a shame that college presidents are actually promoting this demoralizing system. It would seem as if these worthies thought that colleges were instituted to collect a crowd of young bloods together that they might have a high time. No wonder so many young men cannot go to college because all this high living is so costly. If they refuse to pay the taxes for all sorts of fooling they...
...Howard Crosby of New York is a gentleman who has gained a national reputation for independence of opinion and originality of thought on all public questions. Any opinions of his, there-fore, on questions of importance to our colleges will be read with interest and attention by American students. Dr. Crosby has been fulminating against college sports and inter-collegiate contests. His expressions are bold and radical, and, it must be said, will have a considerable weight as representing the views of a large class of people in this country on the subject. And yet the fairer class of people...
...conclusion was reached that protection had, perhaps, benefitted the cotton manufacture while it was a young industry, had hardly helped the woollen manufacture, and had certainly had no beneficial effect in assisting the rise of the iron manufacture. In regard to the cotton and woollen manufacture, Mr. Taussig thought the restriction period, from the embargo in 1808 to the end of the war with England in 1815, had afforded a more effective stimulus than the actual protection given in the tariffs of 1816 and 1854. By 1828 the textile manufacturers were so fairly established that they needed no further protection...