Word: remarkably
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard graduates scholars, but our smaller colleges graduate men," is a remark not unfrequently heard. Many a boy has been sent to Amherst or Dartmouth because his parents, although acknowledging the superior educational advantages of Harvard, have thought to keep their sons from the corrupting influences of a great university. But one may fairly ask what goes to make up manhood? If withdrawal from temptations, association with none but the strictly virtuous, blissful ignorance of vice make a man, then Harvard indeed does not graduate men. There is vice here, much of it, and he is blind who does...
...recent action by the students of Yale in petitioning that the hour of morning prayers be made earlier is well worth remark. The evident purpose which has instigated this movement is, that the afternoon hours of each day may be free from recitations, and therefore open to exercise by the college athletic teams. The News takes occasion to boast that "there is no other institution in the country" which possesses "a strong enough love for their college or a general enough appreciation of her needs, to pass such resolutions." Some of our more ardent friends of the prayer petition...
...common workman at twenty two, fitting himself for college in nine months, graduating after a long struggle at self-support, becoming almost at once a famous critic and an authority in his favorite study. What a lesson his life teaches. The death of such a man cannot pass without remark and honor. We owe to his memory at least a word of appreciation, for he has left to us in his life a high example of firm, unwavering determination to succeed...
...McKenzie's remark during the service yesterday morning that, "No one can stand before thy cold," was so true that many men forced smiles upon their frozen faces...
...application of this principle and its results. We may remark at once, that the present written examination system has been an indispensable accompaniment and tool of the percentage-marking now in vogue. The scale is too fine, in any case, but is less easily applied to other means of testing, such as recitations, than to an examination paper; some scale, of course, is necessary, but it must be coarse enough to be applied justly to every kind of test. With these mutual limits, then, let us define to some extent our test; then our marking system will be practically developed...