Word: touche
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...struggle between the advocates of a systematic classical preparation for a college course and the party of modern languages and science does not so directly touch upon the question of the development of the university idea from the college idea as do some others. No other change of course would be so radical a change as that advocated by the latter party. It is in itself a broader question than that of the elective system, but with the freshman year abolished, it would not directly affect the practical question of the Harvard curriculum. The agitation, we believe, can result...
...willing to go into politics. This arises of course in large part from the fact that our public service has been almost entirely monopolized by men of exceedingly low principles, who have made it, in the language of the day, "too dirty a business for a gentleman to touch." But the original cause is that our young men while in the midst of their education are too much taken up by other things to give any attention to public affairs, and thus, at the very time when their attention and their interest would be of most service, both to themselves...
...know but little, and but meagre accounts reach you. I am not to tell you of the struggle going on over our vast Empire. The universities are a peculiar battleground for this struggle. It is here that your Western ideas, and your philosophies, and above all, your example, touch our worn-out Sclav institutions and our State...
...Spirit of the Times has a certain Hibernian touch to it of "see a head and hit it," which is truly unique, and its bump of aggressiveness has once more led it into a ridiculous position. After administering a sound drubbing, a very sound drubbing indeed, to the University of Pennsylvania, on account of its unfortunate challenge, the writer of the article was seemingly unable to close without making a few flings at Harvard and Yale. He blandly states: "If all the bosh that has been written about the aquatic deeds and words of Harvard and Yale could be collected...
...active throng before him ; he feels an almost irrepressible inclination to throw himself in the midst of the play, just as some people of peculiar nervous constitutions can never see an expense train dashing by a platform without an insane desire to jump at it. His hair has no touch of gray about it, his step is elastic, he still sticks to his cricket or rowing club, he is in every way a healthy, active, full-spirited man, and yet when he looks on at a foot-ball match as a mere passive spectator, the idea crossed his mind that...