Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: Your editorial of yesterday contains an error for which the learned author and the reviewer of Lawrie's "Rise and Early Constitution of Universities" are responsible. Your editorial approves of the statement that "until the fourteenth century there was no conscious founding of universities." This is an error; for thirteen of the twenty-six universities that existed in the year 1300 were consciously founded as studia generalia, the mediaeval conception of the modern university. Three of the eleven Italian universities that existed in the beginning of the fourteenth century were conscious foundations: Naples in 1224, Rome...
...Spanish universities were also conscious foundations: Palenia in 1212, Salamanca in 1243, Valenzia in 1245, Sevilla in 1254, Alcata in 1293, Lerida...
...interesting review of the "Rise and Early Constitutions of Universities" has appeared in the last number of the Nation. According to the view of the author, until the fourteenth century there were no conscious foundings of universities. A university grew, and was not made. We may well doubt if even then all of the universities which are now flourishing in Europe were founded with any idea of the many branches of learning which are now so temptingly offered to allure the ambitious student. It is certain that the founders of the first colleges in this country had no suspicion...
...earnest and upright; self-reliant and confident; patriotic and courageous.' This Mr. Eliot has done, or striven to do, and as far as he has succeeded, we can rightly congratulate and praise him. Let him enjoy his vacation in the tranquility which accompanies the knowledge of labor well done, conscious that he has left behind him the foremost as well as the oldest American university. - Western Exchange...
...constant enlargement of its life been moving toward the great truths of the goodness of God and the sublime capacity of man. It must be so. Our progress of these two centuries and a half would be a terrible mockery if it was not so; if, whether we are conscious of it or not, we had not been always advancing towards a deeper, warmer, truer certainty of the divine love summoning us and a profounder assurance of the unexhausted capacity of man whose faculties were finding training here. Whether we are conscious...