Word: units
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...taken the place of "Private Admonitions," and "Admonitions" of "Public Admonitions," while "Parietal Admonitions" are no longer in the list to enforce discipline. The use of the word "absence" is rather arbitrary, and for that very reason deserves to be remarked. "Absence from a recitation" is taken as the unit of censure by which all failures, enumerated in section 30, to perform duties, are measured. All failures to attend church or prayers are referred to "one absence from prayers" as an unit of censure, five of which are equivalent to one absence from church. Censure marks are, therefore, wholly dispensed...
...started off. My journey to the brook was a modern Anabasis, - ???, - "just three miles" did that brook keep ahead of me throughout the fifteen I walked. I learned this from passing countrymen, and argument and expostulation failed to shorten the distance one yard. "Just three miles" is the only unit of long measure used in New Hampshire...
...will allow, and in addition to this, a course of analytical lectures on some of the most essential secondary subjects, with reference to a good text-book. Such a curriculum, and electives alternate years on Roman Law and International Law, and a summary of the Law, treated as a unit, in connection with some such book as Kent's Commentaries, offering to the student in a palatable way that which a jurist has acquired by his years of experience and labor, this course to be delivered by some man of experience and acknowledged ability as a lecturer and jurist, would...
...imperfect knowledge of the subjects and their importance. There seems no objection to giving, at least, a choice to Freshmen, as, for instance, of different authors; but even this, on consideration, may appear as of doubtful expediency. A class entering college should be in all respects a unit, and there should be among its members as much emulation in one study as in another...
...ward from such action. Wherein lies the difference between an appeal to students and an appeal to the "educated," who are, after all, only students who have graduated from college, and forgotten much if not most of what they have learned there, who cannot act so much as a unit, and who are not so easily accessible as students. Though the latter are less numerous, they should not find themselves entirely neglected, as they are now, on that account. You will very probably say that educated men gain an experience of men and affairs, after leaving college, which gives them...