Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...this refined enjoyment, but the graceful and elegant passing of one's time, when no duties call, in a round of well-timed and carefully moderated enjoyments. It is an art, this living a life of leisure well, and New-Yorkers are just learning it. Our Harvard men probably understand this art of loafing as well as anybody, and they are not slow to show their proficiency when occasion offers. A very large number of them, both residents and visitors, were in New York during the past vacation, and things were correspondingly lively. Released from dull routine of ordinary duties...
...allow any outsider to accompany them in their search, the prosecution was withdrawn. The Senior societies at Yale appear to afford grounds for much dissatisfaction among non-members, which is perhaps the case with all good societies and in all colleges. Here, at Harvard, we don't profess to understand much about the working of society affairs in other colleges, and perhaps cannot duly appreciate the animosity which seems to prevail so particularly against the "Bones." But for the perpetrators of the flag business our mildest name would be ungentlemanly soreheads...
PUBLIC instruction in France, of which I tried in my former letter to make you understand the organization, and which we saw centralized in the University, is divided into three branches or degrees. The first degree is called Primary instruction, and includes the communale schools; the second, Secondary instruction, embraces the Colleges and Lyceums; and the third, the Superior instruction, is given in the Faculties. Remark that I do not speak of education in general. In point of fact, you must not suppose that at the side of this instruction, given and entirely controlled by the state, there exist...
...perhaps give you any original views upon the question, but I shall try to give you a clear idea of the system. This is all you ask of me, and I hope to succeed. But to the comprehension of our system of education, it will be necessary first to understand the mechanism of what is called the University of France...
...private property; and they must perceive, we think, that when we do so our opinion should be respected, because in such cases we have perfect grounds for decision, where they can have none at all; unless, indeed, their Editors should be graduates of Harvard, who would at once understand why we take the position we do, and the propriety of it. We hope that this subject will need no further mention, and that, henceforth, secrets of importance only to those whom they concern may remain secrets...