Word: whether
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...general purpose to spend every year all their income. They believe that well instructed young men are the best investment or accumulation which the university can make from year to year for the benefit of future generations. As fast as new resources are placed in their hands, whether from increase in the amount of tuition fees, or from the income of new endowments, the corporation incur new permanent charges...
...Princeton Review for January, there is a very able article on the college of today, in which the writer advances some very sensible and timely views on the subject of college and university education. He begins by asking whether the most of people are better citizens and better men and women for possessing this higher culture, and says in reply to his question: "Now it must be admitted that a college can do harm and that culture may be a bad thing. Not a true college or a noble culture, mind you. But it has become an axiom among philosophers...
...address delivered some weeks ago, Mr. Justin Winsor expressed a doubt as to whether there was a library in American in which the foot-notes of Gibbon could be verified...
...medical schools and business enterprises cannot be looked upon from the same standpoint. A business enterprise is a private affair, undertaken to make money; if it "won't pay," it goes under. A medical school is an educational affair, whether it pays in money or not is a matter of no importance whatever. It is a public servant, just the same as the public schools. The only dividend the public can expect to receive is that the graduates of the schools are thoroughly educated in both the scientific and practical parts of their profession...
...avoided. It is certainly no part of a school's duties to enter into a sharp competition with a profession whose interests it proposes to advance. So far the letter seems to deserve attention, and enough notice of it ought to be taken to arouse an inquiry as to whether the Harvard Veterinary School is in reality pursuing the most successful course when it succeeds in bringing down on its head the maledictions of the veterinary profession in its neighborhood...