Word: thoroughly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...subject for the next Senior forensic is apparently designed to embody, in a more or less permanent form, the results of certain thorough investigations recently made by some members of the class. The subject is as follows: "Is trial by jury the mode of trial best fitted to determine the truth and establish the right...
...made elastic, so to speak. It should allow discrimination in particular cases, making a special regulation, if necessary, in each case. The Senior with four electives is required to have an average of fifty per cent on them all at the end of the year. This does not imply thorough work; and if any one desires to take up fewer things and do them more thoroughly, is there any rhyme or reason for denying his request...
This course is intended for teachers, and may be of use to any who, beyond a mere practical knowledge, wish to undertake a more thorough and critical study of some of the difficulties of the language...
There are two methods of education which an institution of learning may adopt. It can either assist zealous students in attaining an education, or it can undertake to educate all who choose to come to it. In the latter case the education can never be thorough, but it may be useful; in many cases more useful than an education in itself more perfect but less adapted to the needs of the person possessing it. But an institution established for this purpose must adapt its regulations to its ends. Men who come to college to be educated expect the college...
...however, the college is to be a place of study for those who desire to study, more freedom must be allowed. A thorough education is only to be obtained by co-operation; instructor and student must work together. An education that is to permeate the whole mind cannot be rubbed in, but must be drawn in by the students from outside and at the same time drawn out from himself. The mind, like a meerschaum, is best colored from within. Only by a supply of good material from outside, and a gentle heat of zeal inside, is set free...