Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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In a recent lecture Mr. Walker, M. P., claimed that the bicycle was one of the most wonderful inventions of modern time. It was a great temperance reformer, because it was impossible for a man to ride his bicycle if he were otherwise than sober. It was a great educational...
The following clipping, taken from the editorial columns of the Detroit Evening Journal can not fail to be of interest as an apt illustration of the insane ideas held by many on the subject of college athletics. The elegant language and rational sentiments contained in this extract are particularly noticeable...
It is pleasant to note how the more rational and intelligent portion of the outer world are disposed to deprecate any undue excess in the present reaction against the "epidemic" of athleticism in our American colleges. The absurd strictures of such men as Dr. Crosby seem to meet with little...
I hope that the happy suggestion made by the Crimson, that our instructors bring forward the subject of protection and free trade, will be adopted, and I shall be glad to see it better popularized among us; but I hope, too, that their elucidations will not be confined to the...
The current number of the Popular Science Monthly contains the rectorial address of Dr. Alexander Bain to the students of Aberdeen University, Scotland, taking for his subject "The University Ideal." Prof. Bain gives a description of the origin of the university system, of its gradual growth and progress up to...