Word: adaptation
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...eighty-one. The school offers the unusual advantages of combining a measure of academic culture with a thorough training in some branch of science, and it is to the wide dissemination of this fact that the increase in the school is mainly due. Moreover, special effort is made to adapt instruction to the individual student, and to place him in a situation at the end of the course adapted to his abilities...
...thus adopting the four mile course, Cornell subjects herself to conditions similar to those of any possible competitor. The training of the crew will hereafter be conducted with the four mile race in view, and will necessarily undergo some changes to adapt the present methods to the different requirements...
...Paul with a paper on the "Reconstruction of the Grammar School House." He said that it had now become a well established principle that we must teach the pupil not facts but the meaning of facts; teach him not what to do in given circumstances, but how to adapt himself to any circumstances that may arise. With any such principle, our present system is incompatible. History and geography are presented to the pupil, without ever allowing him a glimpse of their significance for his own life. He is loaded with arithmetic and the like until no room is left...
...recent meeting of the Harvard Club of New York it was voted that the manager be given time to adapt a design for a Harvard Club medal, to be given to members of winning crews, nines, elevens and teams...
...felt and saw. Whether he was the greatest man that ever lived or not, is a question for controversy, but I think no one will deny that he was the greatest expresser the world has ever seen. He remains to this time the world's greatest achievement. To adapt a phase of Sir Richard Stelle's, we may say, that to know Shakespeare is a liberal education - a revelation of truth. The magic of his genius will confer a blessing upon the young and old alike, and you will find in his works whatever you seek - provided you are searching...