Word: performance
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is a popular superstition that college bred men are not quite up to the requirements of an active, business life; that although they may manage to learn the pursuits of peace so as to make oaws, write books and perform the duties of magistrates, they nevertheless cannot adapt themselves to new changes such as take place in times of war and civil excitement. In fact, this superstition assumes that he who wields the pen ably, cannot also handle the sword skillfully. In order to see how little foundation there is to this idea, I turn to the period...
...limited funds and with its multifarious schools and extensive academical department, cannot hope to afford such instruction to graduate students of the liberal arts and sciences as Johns Hopkins, with its narrower and more limited range. Therefore the institution of the latter university, in a field where it could perform a work peculiarly its own, was an event full of importance...
...title of Doctor of Laws is really to be regarded as an appendage to the governorship, it would be better to have it established by law than to compel Harvard University to perform the humiliating duty of bestowing it without regard to the qualifications of the recipient. - [Boston Journal...
...Harvard's loss of "popularity" the Boston Herald says: There is a great deal of idle talk about some supposed loss of popularity which is to accrue to Harvard College because its overseers, acting in the performance of the duties of their office, have not thought it proper to confer the degree of doctor of laws upon Governor Butler. We do not suppose that the overseers gave any special thought to the popularity or the unpopularity of their act. They had a simple duty to perform, and they performed it; and to suppose that the college is to lose...
...against Harvard's system of instruction is that the freshmen do not meet the professors but are generally taught by tutors and instructors. This very fact is a sign that Harvard is endeavoring to utilize the best talents where they do most good. The instructors are perfectly able to perform the duties assigned to them and spare the professors for higher work...