Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have been subscribed for, the management has as yet heard the clink of but $60. We trust that we need simply mention this fact without enforcing its significance and the remedies for it by mighty arguments. The course to be pursued is too axiomatic in its plainness to admit of demonstration...
...told that your book was better than most of the D. books and that it was - nearly - worth C. The new system is not only distasteful to the "grinds." but also to the average man who does not wish to be marked on a scale so broad as to admit of his being classed with those who are in reality inferior to him. This ridiculous and inefficient scheme was, I believe, brought forth by the conference committee, which (as a well known member of '88 very justly said) "was born sickly, and died young." Let us hope that this offshoot...
...admit that the new system may stop men working "for marks," but is this, after all, an advantage? Under the old system men who worked merely to learn worked quite as faithfully, I will venture to say, as they do under the new. If the men who used to work "for marks" no longer do so, the presumption is that they do not work at all, or at least work much less than before, Now, when they worked harder they must, I think, have learned at least a little more than they do now by working less. It is better...
...Yale's chair of Moral Philosophy should not be invited by appreciative alumni to take something? True, it may be said that moral philosophy is a no-account study, while boating is an indispensable of the higher education. But to grant that this is so is not to admit that the professor of moral philosopy is not entitled to a complimentary dinner. It simply shows that he cannot justly claim as good a dinner as Mr. Cook can. If the boating dinner is in fourteen courses, the moral philosophy dinner perhaps could not properly go beyond six or seven...
...certainly could not row under equal conditions. But if Yale and Columbia are willing to take their chances, there is no possible reason why Harvard should not also. As this seems the only draw-back towards Yale's rowing it is sincerely to be hoped that the freshmen will admit them...