Word: developing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...obligations toward their pupils. It is for the work he is to do in college that they ought to prepare him, not for the list of facts and rules necessary to get into college. And that is what the German gymnasia do: they encourage independent thought they try to develop the individual minds of their pupils and to instruct them in the methods of thought and research...
...that at the present time is particularly applicable to Harvard. The writer excellently draws the distinction between a college and a university, showing how much more election in the study belongs to the latter than the former. The college in its aim is "general rather that special, being to develop, as lies in its power, the youth into a man, not into a teacher, lawyer, or other professional or business specialist." The university, on the other hand, is for special study, and is peculiarly an elective institution. Study at a university is usually subsequent to study at colleges. It must...
...original he fails in point of clearness and simplicity. Discords abound throughout. The last movement is in the form of a triple figure, while the second presents a curious combination of fugal and romantic treatment. With all the repelling feature there are indications that a second hearing would develop others more interesting. The rendering of the quartet was all that could be desired...
...merely as a means by which this end may be accomplished. Does our university encourage athletic exercise in a measure adequate to this end? The Hemenway gymnasium - the most complete college gymnasium in the country, and the employment of two officials whose duty it is to superintend and develop athletic interests, answer this question emphatically in the affirmative. Compare Harvard with other colleges and draw answers from the comparisons. One of our correspondents stated that sparring was a national sport, as fencing is in Germany. Do the German universities maintain instructors in fencing...
...will? One of the men who has been trying for the crew seriously contemplated hiring a private coach, and was only dissuaded upon being told that he could not do it for various reasons. This fact stands for itself, and we all hope that other facts will speedily develop which will stand with equal firmness for themselves...