Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...sitting in an over-heated room and of breathing a foul atmosphere for so long a time has been productive of many headaches and of much discomfort. There seem to be some who are unable to appreciate the sanitary advantages of fresh air; but it is difficult to understand how any person bred in a civilized country and to cleanly habits can be indifferent to the purity or the foulness of the atmosphere he inhales...
...World's reports of college doings grow better and better as the weeks go by. The one who has charge of that department seems to understand what he is talking about; the arrangement is always good, and the facts are never twisted. The same may be said, negatively, of the Transcript's reports...
...this connection there are two points to be considered, viz. the object of these examinations, and the attainment of that object. As I understand it, their purpose is to test the accuracy and thoroughness of the student's work during the half-year, and upon their result to base his mark and relative standing in his class. To get a good mark, to stand well in his class, is the desire of every good student, and everything should be done by the College authorities to give him legitimate assistance. But does the present system of examinations give the student...
...great regret at the loss of so valuable a study, but the matter is too serious to receive only a passing notice. There are very few among us who have not felt, to some degree, the effect of the prostration of business at present existing, and yet still fewer understand the causes which have led to it. The laws of Political Economy are at the basis of all financial enterprises, both public and private. No government or business man can afford to ignore them. And yet young men are to be given a certificate of having received a liberal education...
...required studies which are still retained. Will any unbiassed mind prefer Trigonometry to Political Economy, either as regards the practical utility of the study or its value in training the mind? Can it be more valuable to a man to be able to solve an oblique triangle than to understand the questions of financial policy which are agitating the whole country? Our colleges and schools are responsible for the prevailing ignorance of Political Economy. Harvard takes the lead by ceasing to require its "liberally educated" alumni to have the slightest knowledge of the most important science...