Word: like
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...world, and it is the most depressing thing for any human being, because there is no good history of teaching and no history of good teaching. There are no more discouraging biographies than those of men and women who give an account of their education. I should not, however, like to be considered as discouraging this education. I should welcome very heartily the changing of one of our normal schools of this state into a really high normal school, in which all the topics which are grouped together under the general term of pedagogy could be taught and studied...
...AMMERMAN.I cannot explain this for Harvard because Mr. Ammerman does not furnish me with the information asked for, but there are a few facts in the matter which I should like to have answered...
...single evening. They are thereby entitled to recognition, if the Glee club are not; and it is as much on their account as on the account of the Glee club itself that we believe the action of the faculty a mistake. It seems a little like an untimely exercise of preparatory school discipline. The permission granted to give a concert in New York goes very little towards establishing the committee's wisdom in refusing the remainder of the petition, since it is difficult to see, how, on the arguments laid down, the line should be drawn against Baltimore and Washington...
...hold a mass meeting and authorize your committee to withdraw from the present association; and to announce to Princeton that unless they do like wise and form a triple league you will at once form a dual league with Harvard. Then we shall have a triple league and can carry out these, needed reforms. And there will be nothing cowardly or undignified about...
...free discussion of the present athletic situation is welcome news to all for while this privilege has been fully open before, there are yet several important phases of the question deserving attention which have come into prominence since the Yale-Princeton game, and which have not, therefore, received anything like careful attention. If is, of course, foreign to the purpose of the dinner that any definite move whatsoever should be made-that is at once undesirable and out of the question; but the hope is entertained that there may be a thoroughly free expression of opinion on any phase...