Word: conductivities
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...Conduct of Worship." Rev. F. G. Peabody. Divinity-Hall lecture room, 10 A. M. This is the third of a weekly course of ten lectures...
...ecclesiastical meeting at which many eminent ministers were to be present. On arriving, he was surprised to find that after making himself known, no attention whatever was shown him, and from certain ominous whispers he inferred that he was an object of suspicion. His position was embarrasing, and the conduct of his brethren inexplicable. In vain he sought to make himself agreeable or useful, and when at last he was constrained to make a formal demand, he was informed that a few days before his arrival a letter had been received from the president of the college which he professed...
...altogether a new and untried experiment in the history of education. Whether the frequenters at the Academy at Athens in classic times were held under the strict sway of a model "paternal" government, of the most approved American pattern, or whether they thrived upon elective courses in conduct, as well as in studies (see Professor Clapp in the last Nation, who believes election in one necessarily implies election in the other) is a question perhaps beyond our powers to determine. Young America, alas, did not exist in those days and, of a consequence, the delights and glories of college hazing...
...board shall hold regular meetings and keep records of the same, and it shall be its duty to regulate the conduct of the business of the society; to prescribe the methods of keeping its accounts and auditing them, and to appoint, remove and fix the pay of the superintendent and his assistants, and in general to supervise and control the operations of the society, and to pass and publish suitable rules defining its methods...
...examining, or enforce any regulations by means of bars, gates and fines; and not a German university, because the elective system does not mean liberty to do nothing, and no American university has absolved itself, as the German university has done, from all responsibility for the moral training and conduct of students; but a university of native growth, which will secure to its teachers an inspiring liberty and an unlimited scope in teaching, offer its students free choice among studies of the utmost variety, maintain a discipline adequate to the support of good manners and good morals, but determined...