Word: towardness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dynamic course at Sheff., the choice between two optionals is given to the seniors, three hours a week either in electricity or hydraulic motors. This is the first time any optionals have been offered in Sheff., and this departure shows advancement in all branches of the college toward a more liberal course of studies...
...college. Very few of those, who have ever experienced dormitory life at college will not testify that such a life, while it benefits the university at large by bringing together students from a much wider area of country, has also benefitted themselves as individuals by affording them strong influences toward cosmopolitanism and away from the narrowness of provincialism, toward also a wholesome independence in life and ideas and away from the narrowness of home dependencies. The trustees of the University of Pennsylvania overlook the fact that the "man" entering college has lived at home long enough not to forget...
...exercise and adequate physical training to good health. Among the speakers were A. Colbertson, formerly of the Columbia College gymnasium; W. G. Anderson, of the Adelphi Academy; Mr. Blaikie, author of "How to Get Strong and How to Stay So;" and Professor Koehler, of West Point. Steps were taken toward the establishment of a normal school for the training of teachers of Physical exercise - Cornell...
...tendency of State Socialism has been toward success. There have been but few mistakes, and the advance of this moral sentiment has been regular, and rapid. The opening of the suffrage has added to the power of the movement. The ideal of the sentiment is to make the state an organism composed of many parts, each of which shall have wishes and desires of its own embodied in the state...
...body, Harvard intellectual and Harvard athletic. But for the time at least Harvard athletic has more "fame" than Harvard intellectual; the athletes seem to be "bigger" men than the scholars, who very generally receive the hardly complimentary title of "grinds." It is truly said, "local pride leans more kindly toward the victories of brawn than towards those of mind;" but it is a mistake to suppose that Harvard men have no pride in intellectual attainments. The outside world seems to think that Harvard men are afflicted at heart with an indifference about all that is serious. But this conception...