Word: young
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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President, A. J. Hopkins; Vice-President, R. Montague; Recording Secretary, G. F. Young; Corresponding Secretary, R. Kidner; Treasurer, D. J. Richards...
...Edward Everett Hale, who responded to the toast of our Alma Mater. He referred with much feeling to his college days, and advocated the keeping up of college feeling, and a community of interests among the students as sons of a common Alma Mater. He advised young journalists to regard matter more than form, and maintained that any one with something to say could express it. As an alumnus of the College, and an editor of distinction himself, his remarks were listened to with great interest. He was followed by Professor William Everett, who spoke of some of the peculiarities...
...largely obtained in America, and from whose influence Harvard has not been exempt. The low view of education which regards it as means to an end, and not as an end in itself, has resulted in a demand for special education. The same spirit which keeps from college the young men intended for business pursuits, even in college requires them to follow certain studies as a preparation for their particular vocation in life; thus regarding man as a mere machine whose chief function is the getting of his daily bread, and not as a mind of infinite capabilities...
Buttercups in reaping time are, in the author's own words, "preciously rare." But the young woman is ambitious and goes about her drudgery...
...number of teachers that we are deficient. And yet we are in reality behind the other nations in matters of education. Whence does this arise? There are several reasons. In the first place, the children are not sent to school, or are taken away too young. Every commune, as I told you, pays its own teacher. It gives him a fixed salary, varying between four hundred and eight hundred francs a year. But this salary paid, the instruction is still not free. Each child has to contribute in addition what amounts to about a sou per day. Now, fathers...