Word: worthely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Present worth...
...smaller scale, -say coal and wood, book orders, stationery, tennis goods, and the list of affiliated tradesmen, and employing two clerks, and the superintendent only one day in the week. If there are three hundred men in college who realize that the benefits of the society would be worth $2 to them, and if these men will take the trouble to pay their $2 (returnable at once in case the amount fails to reach $600 at the office of the society, between now and six o'clock Monday evening), we can keep up the society, There...
...clearly demonstrated by comparing the size of the classes. At present '85 has 30 men; '86 has 60; '87 has 85, and '88 has 193. Thus special students have become a prominent feature of the Technology, numbering 211, or 36 per cent. of the whole number. Another feature worth noticing is the instruction given to graduates, of whom there are over thirty, gathered from many colleges, and including Harvard A. B's. The corps of professors, instructors, assistants and lecturers, who are charged with the duty of teaching these men, numbers 63, of whom 28 comprise the faculty. At their...
...might be a subject worth investigating, why, our college never patterned after its English foster-mother, in walling itself from the outside world. Our own impression is that, in colonial times, the college was too poor to erect an enclosure, and that, later, it world have been deemed contrary to the principles of the Declaration of independence to fetter the American youth with the restrictions of the domicitiary system...
...Christ in America. It emphasizes the way in which religious problems should be approached. It has begun to free strong and earnest minds from the thralldom of sect. If the divinity schools at Andover or New. Haven, or the one established by churchmen under the shadow of Harvard, are worth anything to-day, it is because they approach the study of Christianity by the method which has been successfully inaugurated at Harvard. The lines of advance are in this direction. * * * The majority of the divinity students are evangelical men who go there because the instruction is of a higher...