Word: content
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There is no reason why a plan which has such obvious advantages as the one adopted by Princeton, should not be equally desirable at Harvard, and unless some such plan is carried out, men who desire to go, but cannot afford to pay regular rates, will have to be content with dreaming and longing. There is no need of this if some businesslike student will begin immediately to agitate the question of excursions from Harvard to Chicago. In such excursions there is the obvious advantage of the added interest and pleasure arising from the company of men of kindred views...
Another striking similarity between Comenius' system and ours is the importance which he places upon the practical side of education. He was not content with simply absorbing learning. He wished to apply this learning in all the fields of knowledge to find out not only what others have known but also what they have not known, in other words to open men's minds to the value and means of original investigation...
...here we must depend on college instructors, whose time is already largely filled. "This feature of the American system, * * * if persisted in, must ultimately destroy the extension scheme itself," for college instructors cannot, with justice to their work, engage in regular outside teaching. The extension movement here therefor, must content itself with a less ambitious scheme than its English prototype. The attitude of Professor Palmer, throughout the discussion is so cool and dispassionate, and his reasoning so logical that the doubts he expresses cannot be lightly passed over...
...been troublesome to not a few, in all ages. Virtue with crosses and misfortunes is not rare while vice is often prosperous and comfortable. Here a poor seamstress earns enough to sustain life only by constant and painful labor and there a careless cumberer of the ground is quite content in everything; here a charlatan thrives and there a well-equipped practitioner has scarcely a patient; here a demagogue makes a fortune out of the people's fears and hopes and there a patriot is unheeded...
Several men have entered for the cross-country run Monday and it will be a close content. The courses subject to change, has been posted it the Gymnasium...