Word: huxley
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...open doors to the real and burgher schools and the gymnasia. Primary schools in England have been a by-word because the chasm between the great endowed schools, colleges, and universities and the places for the instruction of the poor was as wide as that between Lazarus and Dives. Huxley had said that no system of public education was worthy the name unless it created a great educational ladder, with one end in the gutter and the other in the university...
...Darwin's essay on "Instinct," which has recently been published, has awakened but little discussion. The general opinion seems to agree with Prof. Huxley, in that it is of very little importance, and had better have been left unpublished...
...Lord Mayor of London, in welcoming Professor Huxley to the city recently, suggested that the position of President of the Royal Society was really one of even greater importance than that of Prime Minister; Mr. Gladstone is chief Minister of England, but Professor Huxley was "the head of the intellectual life of the world...
...Ring and the Book. The historians are headed by Froude 391, who comes next to Browning, closely followed by Mr. Freeman, 241. Mr. Herbert Spencer is eight with 235 votes, Cardinal Newman, (for his "Apologia) is ninth with 192 votes, John Morley has (187, William Morris, 147; Professor Huxley, 115; and Mr. W. E. Gladstone, 107. Novel writing is thought to appeal greatly to the popular taste but the novelists are at a discount, none of them getting a tenth of Mr. Tennyson's votes, Black, Shorthouse, and Blackmore being the most favored in that way. Among the poets Swinburn...
...studies. Since the revolution, however, few of the students has accepted the Buddhist doctrines, and most of them attend the lectures and recitations solely because they are compelled to. Nine-tenths of the students are radical freethinkers, and nearly one-tenth Christians. The works of Mill, Darwin, Buckle, Lecky, Huxley and Herbert Spencer are far better known than the Bible or the Buddhist works. [Cornell...