Word: certainally
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...reduce their rates, thus extending the benefits of the Society outside of its membership. All this is a very considerable achievement for an organization planned, founded, and managed by college students, and in view of these facts the Society may be pronounced a decided success. Unfortunately, there is a certain lack of smoothness in one or two particulars which may bring to pass a dangerous discontent, and swamp the Society. The chief trouble is that ordered goods are delayed. This is, perhaps, in most cases unavoidable; but the great number of complaints on this subject seems to indicate an inability...
...many others who have shown their appreciation of them by their regular attendance. It is much regretted that the course in rhetoric has been so settled for the year that the lectures cannot be continued; for, notwithstanding Prof. Hill's remarks, encouraging all to set aside and employ certain hours in reading and studying the English authors, we fear that by many this will not be done. Owing to the constant pressure of work, one's good resolutions to employ one's time in outside reading are seldom realized, and it is only when urged on by some present necessity...
That is a large body of evidence, and it is supported by almost all a priori reasoning. Why should a certain width of mind, which is what the universities really give, be injurious to efficiency? Graduates are as healthy as the most ignorant, and rather more given to activity. They are just as brave and just as industrious, and ought to be much better protected - though we admit this to be doubtful as matter of fact - against that weariness with the monotony of toiling life which is one of the most frequent causes of failure. The loss of time...
...university, so far as it is good in itself, and omitting the question whether it might not be much better, is good for all conditions of men whose work can be learned well when the mind has lost its first pliability. That a certain stiffness of mind, an inability to accommodate itself to new work of any kind, is the result, and the single result, of university training which acts as a drawback to success in practical life...
...Walker, lecturer on the tenure of land; G. Stanley Hall, lecturer on pedagogy; and C. P. Parker instructor in Greek and Latin for the current academic year. The board voted that it is not at present expedient to consent to the vote of the president and fellows to assign certain scholarships to special students...