Word: discussions
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...fondled only, and condemned never). Greek and Latin are dead, it is said, and should be buried; but the modern languages and the sciences are alive and full of practical interest. How much or how little truth there is in this cry it is not necessary or possible to discuss here, for I am considering, not whether Greek should be taught at all, but how it should be taught...
...degree his dignity, and that the manner in which a student approaches his instructor often hinders a congenial feeling. He thought he fairly represented the Faculty in saying that it was their wish that we might meet, not to decide the marks to be given for recitation, but to discuss a lesson for the sake of the knowledge contained...
...resolution was passed expressing disapproval of intercollegiate literary contests; but inasmuch as there was a difference of opinion as to the object of the convention, and it was thought by many that it might be intended to discuss in general the advisability of the proposed contests, it was voted to send delegates. Messrs. Dyer of '74, Richmond of '74, and Warren of '75 were accordingly elected, and provision was made that, in case of the disability of any delegate to attend the convention, he should have power to appoint a substitute. In conclusion, it was voted that the delegates should...
...propose here to discuss the claims of oratory. Everybody - even our conservative friend of the Advocate - who knows the means by which free speech is made influential in a democracy like ours, will, theoretically at least, take its utility for granted. The question at issue is the time at which the study and practice of the art should be commenced. According to our author, "a man must have a vast number of well-arranged facts and settled opinions before he can speak off-hand with ease." In other words, after years of cloister student-life, in which his learning...
...would be influenced far more by their previous prejudices or a desire to oblige, than by a belief in its necessity or advantage. But it would not alone be absurd; it would be pernicious as well. Indeed, it is an objection that holds as well against the discussion of the question as against the pledge, that some men in defiance, and to show their contempt, rush into excesses they otherwise had never approached. It is nice because it is naughty. But to overthrow this system of pledging, it is necessary to discuss the subject, and to advocate some other remedy...