Word: leaded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Lately in the Advocate Mr. C. H. Barrows declares that if Harvard is to lead among our colleges, her graduates must be leaders among men, must be reformers. "The call," he says, "is for those of high culture to be pronounced, generous, and self-sacrificing." Few can doubt his words; for Harvard's reputation is the reputation of her alumni. They must be worth something in the world to make her worth anything. Yet that Harvard may send out such men, it is needful that she herself stand as an example of what is the best; she must...
Mercantile Law at University of Pennsylvania covers the usages and methods of business, the management of property and the administration of trusts and is supplemented by an exposition of the leading principles of the Common Law. The text book is Parson's Laws of Business. Both Columbia and University of Michigan give similar courses. Why the faculty here have not introduced an elective to cover this subject pursued in other colleges, when the beast of Harvard has been always to take the lead in political science, as a matter of deep concern. Of the advantages of such a course...
...advocates raising the standard of our preparatory schools, until they are more nearly on a level with the German Gymnasia. He very justly says that such a change is needed to make the elective system effective. The subject is timely, and well worth attention. Under the title, Shall Harvard Lead? C. H. Barrows, '76 urges educated men to be reformers. The article is an able and earnest protest against the indifference and dilettantism which certainly prevails among certain classes here. Whatever may be thought of the special reforms of which Mr. Barrows speaks, it will be granted that the tone...
...from Harvard and from the great English Universities. There is a widespread idea that a graduate of our college would be obliged to do a great deal of hard work at Oxford or Cambridge before he could get a degree from either. Personal inquiry and comparison lead the writer to think differently, in fact quite the reverse...
...Harvard and Harvard instructors go abroad in this way. Such an evidence that we have been doing, and can do such good work in the department of Political Economy cannot fail to draw students here. The subject has of late been demanding much attention every-where. Accordingly, the lead which Harvard takes in discussing the important questions on the topic must attract many who are believers in the New Education...