Word: altering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...feeling and to influence as many as possible in favor of its candidates. That is the object of all public demonstration. That some of the students go for the "frolic" either having no choice between the parties, or subordinating their convictions to their desire for a "spree" does not alter the question. A political demonstration it is intended to be and as such it will be regarded...
...secondary education, and in what proportion should they be mingled? There is no controversy among the college faculty as regards the desirability of French and German. The fact that Latin has ceased to be the fundamental language of scholars, and its place taken by French and German, should alter the course of secondary schools. French and German ought to be begun early. Of the four languages, Latin, German, French and Greek, it would seem natural to take the easiest first, and yet it is believed that Latin is the hardest. The requirements for admission to American colleges today, including Harvard...
...determined to go. A melody is not a sum of pleasant notes, but an organism, to be judged as such. In general, the experiences of life, if arranged in a different order, without in anywise changing their qualitative character as separate pleasures or pains, would at once alter their value. A single moment in a hour's or day's experiences if it has an organic connection with our previous life, has a value that may outweigh the dullness of all the rest of the hour or day. So we estimate our own lives not at all as aggregates...
...members of that elective received in their freshman year, and their average marks in the elective. Some electives might thus be valued as high as 120 per cent., others as low as 80 per cent., of the standard course. But the adoption of the plan would at once alter these figures. Students would prefer three and a half hard courses to five easy ones; the standard of the one must fall and the other rise...
...essential feature in the fun of the play was the most striking feature of the performance. Euelpides, for instances, when he was on the stage at one time without speaking, essayed his new wings in a series of extremely ridiculous attempts at flight from the top of the alter, each ending, of course, in disastrous collapse. The Birds were constantly engaged in some comical tricks, one of them going so far so to peck the long hair of the violoncellist in the orchestra, to the great amusement of the audience and the embarrassment of the worthy man. Herakles drank...