Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...California. In 1908 he received the degree of LL.D. from Illinois, and last month, at the Inauguration of President Lowell, he received the degree of Litt.D. In conferring the degree President Lowell referred to him as "a pioneer in American history, who has set forth in memorable pages the vast influence of Western expansion upon the civilization of our country...
Frederick Jackson Turner, a delegate from the University of Wisconsin; a pioneer in American history, who has set forth in memorable pages the vast influence of Western expansion upon the civilization of our country...
...course of time these simple methods were outgrown. President Eliot pointed out with unanswerable force that the field of human knowledge had long been too vast for any man to compass; and that new subjects must be admitted to the scheme of instruction, which became thereby so large that no student could follow it all. Before the end of the nineteenth century this was generally recognized, and election in some form was introduced into all our colleges. But the new methods brought a divergence in the courses of study pursued by individual students an intellectual isolation, which broke down...
...entering a graduate professional school, is not inconsistent with a liberal education. But I will acknowledge a prejudice that for a man who is destined to reach the top of his profession a broad education, and a firm grasp of some subject lying outside of his vocation, is a vast advantage; and we must not forget that in substantially confining the professional schools at Harvard to college graduates we are aiming at the higher strata in the professions...
...with the campaign for a new gymnasium, and with Memorial, urging in the case of the latter that an efficient professional caterer be found. As I look back on my own days at Memorial it seems to me there was an enormous waste; the waiters used to bring us vast quantities of roast beef, for instance, from which we could select the tid-bits which suited our palates. Such waste of course would not be tolerated in a hotel. Economy at Memorial is greatly to be desired; I should think the Corporation might accomplish a great deal by keeping...