Word: kindergartens
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...That a return should now be threatened from the present system which those college officers best qualified to judge have pronounced a success, to the old one that has been tried and found wanting; that Harvard should deliberately retrace its steps, and from the university revert to the kindergarten, is a disappointment and a humiliation...
...sites for a university church, a memorial arch, buildings for the industrial department now under construction, libraries and museums, a botanic garden, four districts laid out in building lots suitable for detached dwellings and domestic gardens, with public ways directly communicating with the central university buildings, sites for a kindergarten, a primary school, an advanced school, and a school of industry and physical training, and a direct avenue between the central quadrangle and a proposed station of the Southern Pacific Railway, bordered by groves and promenades, with space in the wheelway for a double-track street railway...
...most eminent and highly esteemed lawyers glanced quickly up to the bench and, seeing Judge Holmes for the first time in that position, turned to his neighbor and in an apprehensive tone, but with a twinkle in his eye, whispered: "Good Lord! Judge, is this a kindergarten court...
...part of a gentleman to infringe so far on the liberty allowed here, as to make rediculous an officer of the university and a number of its students. A university is not a fitting place for the exhibition of kindergarten tricks; nor are the great majority of men here in sympathy with such nonsensical performances...