Word: towardness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard College have adopted a policy directly contrary to the one that has been in force so long and with such good effects,-the policy of non-interference. Their action can be looked at as nothing less than a long step back ward in the progress of Harvard toward the ideal university, and what makes this step more unendurable is its absolute uselessness. We have been yielding gradually to the views of the faculty on this point, and have tacitly been granting the necessity of some regulation of athletics. But, to state the question in plain terms, what evidences have...
...lies deeper and may be explained by the fact that a number of college schools are rapidly springing up in the large cities. It has long been known that Harvard owes much to the excellent school system maintained in New England, and where the tendency of the school is toward Harvard, the number of applicants for admission is gratifying. Then there is a pride among New Englanders at having an university so essentially their own, and its nearness also contributes in no small degree to its popularity, not to mention the superior advantages afforded men who desire to pursue...
...quite as fine as Harvard's. Moreover, although Harvard's position is almost universally conceded to be first, yet there is a lamentable ignorance, among men who live at a distance, of the great advantages of a Harvard course. This ignorance, the establishing of fitting schools whose tendency is toward Harvard, is rapidly dispelling. Already in many cities a certain school is known as a Harvard school, and although it prepares men for other colleges, yet it brings much influence to bear upon the uncertain and directs them toward Cambridge. These schools ought to be encouraged by the university...
...instruments, which must be calculated before the variations of the needle can be correctly observed and measured. Mr. Ely is a graduate of the class of '36, and was for several years after graduation tutor of Latin in the college. He takes this way of expressing his kind feelings toward his Alma Mater, and it is a way which may well be imitated by other graduates. [News...
...advised an undergraduate this year, with a view to gaining rather a broad education than a special one, to risk losing his college distinctions and take a varied course, I should be glad to know whether I am to be justly accused of having shaped his course toward the goal of superficiality...