Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...choir sang the anthem, "A Hymn of the Homeland," by Sullivan "Teach Me Thy Ways" by Giovanni Croce and Smart's "Hearken Unto My Voice...
...London Quarterly Review says in a recent number: "All the professors of universities in America save one, Pennsylvania, teach free trade; but the people are protectionists in spite of their doctrinaires." The New York Mail and Express says, in comment, that although Pennsylvania is not the only protectionist college (for the University of Minnesota also teaches protection) yet it must be admitted that the economic teaching in most of our colleges is a reflection of English thought and methods. This is shown by the fact that the text books used are those of Adam Smith and Malthus, Mill and Jevons...
...anomaly that our colleges should teach a system which is directly opposed to the settled tariff policy adopted by our country almost from its foundation, and which intelligent men are soon forced to abandon. "This radical divergence between university training and the wise national policy which is overwhelmningly supported by the people (for very few Democrats are willing to be called free traders), is greatly to be deplored. The colleges cannot educate the mass of Americans to their doctrines, but they will alienate the university from the practical, thinking heart of the people, and displace it from the esteem...
Although his successes have undoubtedly weakened the republican party, yet he cannot overthrow the republic. In case of a conservative victory, Pres. Carnot would probably appoint a cabinet from the conservatives in the senate. These men are more moderate than the deputies. They will teach wisdom to their party, and will delay violent changes in order to win in the senate elections...
...part the college and its work played in a young man's life than it does now, when he is tempted to try the experiences of that other university which is called the city of Boston. For every city is a university; every city has a great deal to teach, and has a great many illustrations of what are taught in other colleges; and we must not wonder if the men of today, who find themselves close to the streets of Boston, to its courts, its State House, its schools, its concerts, its theatres, its dances, its lectures...