Word: worded
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...many professors there were, and they replied not one, that there was no money to support one. We asked how many students there were. They said at first thirty, and then came down to twenty. I afterward understood there were probably not ten. They could hardly speak a word of Latin, so that my comrade could not converse with them. They took us to the library, where there was nothing particular. We looked over it a little. They presented us with a glass of wine. This is all we ascertained there. The minister of the place goes there morning...
...this case instructor and pupil are mutual assistants, both should be allowed the utmost liberty. There should be as many electives as possible; give all free choice; every man wishes a different variety of knowledge. Recitations and lectures should be voluntary, and voluntary in the true sense of the word. No account of attendance at recitations should be kept. Then students, as they help to build up their education, will freely accept a share in the responsibility...
...thought sufficiently interesting for a word of notice, that our friend's first American ancestor, Major Robert Sedgwick, Governor of Jamaica under Cromwell, was one of the early benefactors of Harvard College...
...Censure Marks becomes almost poetical in its phraseology, and but for a few slight trips in metre and a superfluous line we might be deceived into reading it as a sonnet. The directness and conciseness of the writing cannot be too much praised, though we could wish that the word shall might give way to the gentle "may" or to the potential and insinuating...
...have purposely reserved for our last word of praise that most curiously interesting "Vassar Manual."* It is not a new work, but has been recently discovered and reprinted, and around its contents cling the air and spirit of a bygone age. Its real date must be far earlier than that assigned by the title-page, though this may very well be the true date of a modern reprint. That this curious collection of brief essays, sonnets, epigrams, and oracular injunctions was intended for a most limited circulation, we infer from the direction on the cover of our copy...