Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...have failed to carry our point, but it is a matter of question whether our interests really suffer by this resolution. For the present, at least, Yale has the advantage, because she can take valuable men from the Sheffield S. S. (in fact, we understand that this year three of the intended crew belong to that school), which is large, and comparatively few in it are graduates of any college; while we have only a small number in the Lawrence S. S., a large part of whom are graduates. But nothing prevents us from placing in our crew men from...
...point out to us "the beauties of idea and expression." He likens the present system to that Mr. Ruskin prescribes for the cultivation of the artistic taste, and objects to this, both because it upsets our faith in our old ideas of art, and because, if I understand, it is a system...
...second place, we object to the compromise because it sets before the student, as his motive of action, a temporary advantage. Rewards of merit will do well enough in primary schools, where the children cannot be expected to understand and appreciate the ultimate object of study; but it is no compliment, to say the least, to try to influence those who are men before the law by praise and bonbons...
...understand that at the time of his death Bulwer was engaged on a work that was expected to far surpass his previous efforts. In his public life he has been successful, and has been prominently connected with numerous Parliamentary measures for educational and social reform...
VERY instructive is the second number of Volume II. of the Vassar Miscellany. We scarcely know which article is the more racy and readable, - the political essay on "The Tendency to Centralization of the Government of the United States," or the moral reflections "About Jonahs." Our inability to understand the latter is only a slight drawback to our enjoyment of it, and is more than compensated when we consider how wise she who wrote it must have been...