Word: mission
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...question; and, if it be the only one, there must be very few college men who will deny the success of the present system of examinations. But examinations are not, or certainly ought not to be, only to test ignorance; the other, and in our opinion the more important, mission is, or should be, to test knowledge. Some may argue that there is only a very slight distinction, if any at all, between the testing of ignorance and the testing of knowledge; but it would seem that the right to such argument belongs only to such men as are able...
...prevailing danger of democracy, that with its intense sense of the importance of the mass, it spend all its energies in the construction of the nave while the tower remains always unfinished. To guard against this tendency, to throw all its influence against this tendency; is the great mission of this university as of every university with high aims and abilities in the land. The tendency of democracy is to make little of such purposes, to hold in slight regard in comparison with other things the means by which such purposes are attained the colleges of the country...
...place in it, and with faith which shall never grow old that whatsoever of good, however humble, he puts into the world shall abide in it forever. That there are college weaklings, as there are weaklings everywhere, is not to be denied; but it is the purpose and mission of the true college to add 'strength to strength.' Its graduate is to be a wider man, of deeper resource; if a farmer, a better farmer, at all events a better citizen and a better man. So far as this result is not produced, it is the fault...
AMBIGUOUS.A number of colleges men helped to decorate the Bethany mission chapel. Last Thursday and Friday evenings.[News...
...Canada. It is not to be conducted for or against the interests of any other institution, but its members desire to be helpful to all; it will doubtless stimulate to methodical study persons who otherwise might find no opportunity for intellectual work, and is thus likely to increase the mission to good schools. Instructors will always be selected for their special qualification, without regard to the institutions with which they happen to be connected...