Word: whether
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...absolutely destructive to high purposes. How many of the amateur philosophers and nineteenth Greeks in college to-day could give even a plausible reason for the constitutionality of a bill in Congress - a question asked on a recent examination paper. And if they could not answer intelligently to themselves, whether the promoters and the signers of such a bill were doing their country a service, pray how much more intelligent voters, and how much more useful citizens would they make than their own gardners or coachmen? There are plenty of places waiting for these young men - our national politics offer...
...course during the half-year, and whose answers could be but a very poor criterion of the student's knowledge of the course at best; these papers have contained either fewer questions, but of a comprehensive character such as would allow the student an opportunity to show whether he could write intelligently upon the subject, or else there have been many more questions in order that the student might have an option in his choice of subjects...
...imagination as well sometimes); but every student has a sympathy with certain parts of his work, and takes more interest in those parts than in others. He would perfer always to dilate upon these favorite topics. Under the old system it was as Cicero would say "bull-luck" whether he had a chance or not. Under the new regime he can show himself to better advantage...
...mathematics, and history. It was definite almost in the same sense that M. D. or B. D. or LL. B. are. These degrees likewise "take an individual variation of meaning for every one who wins them;" but no one will need to ask the winner of a LL. B. whether he claims to be a lawyer or a theologian...
...evening would be of any advantage, and that because they did not care for a lighted library when they were in college, no one now needs it. Such notions, however, may satisfy the corporation, but not the students. The present temper of the latter is wholly indifferent as to whether the corporation used to perfer squalor and darkness or not. What they want, or, at least, what 90 per cent. of those who use the library want, is a library that is open, as much of the day as libraries are ordinarily opened, and is light enough at all times...