Word: difference
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college at Harvard are appointed without reference to religious opinions, and students are not questioned concerning their religious convictions. Harvard furnishes seats for students in six churches, but technical instruction could not be offered, because the college could not offer a sufficient variety of instruction to satisfy the radically different religious views of the students. The advantage of the non-sectarian college is that under its wing, all forms of religion are safe. When young men make a choice, it is conscious one. They learn that the doctrines and rules of living, common to all sects, have more practical importance...
...recent issue of the Boston Herald appeared a report of an interview with a prominent graduate of Yale. This gentleman advances some opinions which differ so materially from those generally expressed by graduates of our sister college as to excite some surprise. To put his statement in few words, he declares that the New Haven institution is in a bad way. He claims that its methods of instruction are far behind the times, and that they are inadequate to meet the demands of those who wish to keep pace with the present advance of education. After complaining...
...gained from the many prescribed elementary courses. The elective system seems especially adapted to promote the interests of higher education. Students are led to special subjects with a view peculiar and fitted to each one's nature. Professor Ladd is earnest and sincere in his views, although we may differ with him yet we give him credit for his careful argument...
...enough prominence in our columns. We may, however, be pardoned for once more touching upon it ourselves. All the writers on Anglomania seem to agree on one point, namely, that they want a true patriotism among American students. But their ideas as to methods for securing this seem to differ widely. One faction would have us avoid all following after English ways; the other faction protests against such a "narrowing down of our models," and urges us to be Englishmen if we think Englishmen superior to Americans. This apparent contradiction is rather a difference than a contradiction, and the difference...
...that he cannot fail to see that he has grossly misrepresented the views therein expressed. And if he thinks it over a little, it seems to me that he will find it rather difficult conscientiously to deny any of the facts therein stated, however much he may differ as to the conclusions drawn...