Word: talents
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor Jackson, assisted by distinguished local talent, gave a most enjoyable concert in the yard last evening before a large and appreciative audience. The rendering of many selections was remarkably fine...
...given in accordance with no general plan and for no special proficiency in any particular branch, but each year an army of Doctors of Divinity, Doctors of Law, etc., is turned loose upon an unsuspecting community that had, up to that time, lived in blissful iignorance of the latent talent wasting in its midst, and destined to be lost forever to the world, had not some keen-sighted, discriminating institution rescured it from oblivion. Two years ago our 'reform governor' was the involuntary means of lopping off one branch of the abuse at Harvard, but even this moderate reform...
...seem to know, and the man who plays the sophist best will gain the best place. It seems to be forgotten that the knowledge needed for passing an examination, and the knowledge needed for producing a great book or a great discovery, are essentially different, and therefore that the talent required in the two cases is also essentially different. At present the Chinese theory is in full possession of the public minds, and it is imagined that a high rank means corresponding abilities and information; and so it does, if we understand abilities and information for examination purposes only...
...that students who follow consistent courses, may become "onesided and erratic." This charge again is true, and in its truth do we find the excellence of our plan. When a student has acquired a certain roundness, it should be the next step for that student to develop some especial talent with which he is endowed. This is made possible in a greater degree under an elective than a prescribed system, and in this possibility of "one sided" intellects becoming still more "one sided" is the virtue of the new regime...
...representation. While it is not to be expected that the leading roles will be filled in a manner which will compare favorably with the acting of our prominent actors, the play will nevertheless equal in interest representations of a much more ambitious nature. The performance will undoubtedly call out talent of no mean order, and every student who takes an interest in the live advancement of the college should encourage the Shakspere Club by lending it the encouragement of his presence in Sanders next Monday evening...