Word: truest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that Harvard College earns the title of being the first American university. If Harvard wishes to claim a position among the universities of the world, she must present opportunities for instruction worthy of such a position. Completeness in minor departments does not constitute a university in the broadest and truest sense of the word. Although the number of students who wish to study Sanskirt or Zend or Semitic languages may be limited, a university which aspires to lead must be ready to supply the demand however slight. There should be no necessity for students of these languages to go abroad...
...lectures are delivered, and not at the English universities." And, with this in view, President Porter points to the future of Columbia should she found an advanced school, for which President Barnard has already asked $4,000,000. "The great obstacle in the way of a university, in its truest sense," he continues, "in America, is the need of proper preliminary instruction. We may have all the departments, but, when entrance to these departments can be made from a mere high school education, we have not a university; to obviate this, two paths are open, either to improve and enlarge...
...that a more curious commentary on his speech could not have been found than an impartial and full description of that game. Dr. Crosby protests against the injurious training, the intense partizanship, the large expenditures and the encouragement given to betting and other rowdy accompaniments of professional athletics. The truest accounts of the Yale game, it is asserted, show it to have been a disgraceful exhibition of brutality and cheating. It is declared that the referee seemed powerless to see or check the continual disregard of rules, that the position of umpire seemed degraded to that of coach, and that...
...terms in New England, the Middle States, the sunny South, the great Northwest and on the Pacific coast. The broadening influence of such a course upon the young American of the future would be inestimable. He would really know his country, and be an American in the highest and truest sense...
...experience has given us. People are so willing, it seems to me, to submit themselves to one great tailor or another great tailor, and try to persuade themselves that all the good taste in the world is summed up in him. But surely this is not the deepest, the truest way of looking at things. Let me illustrate this...