Word: whether
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ought to keep them from walking about, except to answer inquiries, and they can watch us just as well from one end or one side of the room, or from the middle, if they will only stay there. A proctor ought to know before he comes to an examination whether his boots creak or not; if they do, he can get a pair of felt slippers for sixty-five cents. Or if he sits down, as he ought to, he can do all his necessary walking in stocking-feet...
...still very much concerned about the matter, and seems to view "Harvard's motive in this matter as utterly incomprehensible." For the benefit, therefore, of the Record and the Yale crew, which deem it "extremely discouraging to begin active training while in a state of uncertainty as to whether a race is to be rowed or not," we would once again state that there is no doubt whatever about Harvard's accepting Yale's challenge. We make this statement not upon our own authority but upon the authority of a gentleman who certainly ought to be well informed regarding...
...high character from its illustrations, which are excellent, but there is still much to be desired in its editorial columns. A recent article entitled "Magoshville" was capital, and we hope for more from the same writer. We wish, for its own sake, that the Spectator would frankly say whether or not it is an undergraduate publication, for rumors are floating about that it is not, and we are forced to believe they have good foundation...
...argue whether culture is good, the writer says, but argue harder than ever whether it pays. On the general value of wide education opinion is, we think, much more nearly unanimous than it was forty years ago. Time was, and not so long ago, when even the cultivated doubted whether "scholars" were ever quite fitted for the practical work of life, just as time was, and not so long ago, when generals and admirals held that educated soldiers and sailors were sure to run away. All this has passed away, as has the idea that the universities are "nests...
...university, so far as it is good in itself, and omitting the question whether it might not be much better, is good for all conditions of men whose work can be learned well when the mind has lost its first pliability. That a certain stiffness of mind, an inability to accommodate itself to new work of any kind, is the result, and the single result, of university training which acts as a drawback to success in practical life...