Word: whether
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wearisome to your readers, I should like to explain to your correspondent of February 13, the use I made, in your issue of February 11, of the words specialist and superficialist. Your correspondent questions my right to use the words as I did, in raising the remarkable question whether "a man who is not a specialist must be a superficialist." I certainly did not intend to say that a man who does not devote his attention to one subject only, can have no depth of knowledge whatever. There are, of course, minds which are capable of making more progress...
...freshmen should buy all their books of members of the upper classes, and the seniors should buy cigars from the president and perfumed stationery from the youngest tutor. Both the students and the faculty should buy their food of the trustees, and the latter could buy whatever they needed, whether books, clothing, or food from the faculty. The more frequent these exchanges should be made the greater would be the annual profits of Middlebury trade and commerce. The trustees, faculty and students, should, therefore, devote at least four hours of every day to making "exchanges." In this way each...
Professor Sumner of Yale asserts that the great question of the day, in educational circles, is "whether America is to have seminaries or universities...
...reported that the trustees of Princeton "have adopted" the new regulations in athletics, although the faculty have not yet done so and feel much hesitancy about so doing. We confess that we are not able to gather from this whether it is finally decided that the regulations will be enforced at Princeton or not. The regulation of sports in itself would seem to be a matter for faculty decision, but we presume that the board of trustees has a complete jurisdiction in the matter and can force action on the part of the faculty. Princeton's attitude is naturally...
...informal have been introduced. The first was last Saturday, and the custom promises to become quite popular. It has become evident that the boating interests there are necessarily to remain at a standstill, unless somebody puts his hand in his pocket for a new boathouse and various other requisites. Whether the alumni are on the point of making such sacrifice will soon be shown by a circular letter calling for funds for new accommodations on the river and for the maintenance of the crew...