Word: might
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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THERE is a world-wide prejudice, I might almost say superstition, that a gentleman should never soil his hands with work. There was perhaps a time in America, when even those dignified personages in white wigs, knee-breeches, and gilt frames, of whom we are all so proud, - even if they be only distant cousins on the mother's side, - played a part almost manual in laying the foundation of the great country in which we live; but those days are past. The state has successively passed through the ordeals of creation and salvation, in the true old orthodox...
DURING the past College year the University lecturers have been represented by only one gentleman, Mr. Perkins. The number might be increased with much benefit to the students, and it seems to us that a course on law would be as instructive and useful as on any subject, a knowledge of which is requisite for general culture. At Dartmouth there is a course of lectures on law delivered to the academic students. They do not go into the subject deeply, but enough to read the frequent law terms which occur in articles, newspapers, and books with more intelligence...
...taking a more general action on the subject. If the Memorial Building when completed is to afford the facilities, it would seem that no better place could be chosen for locating such a collection. The College is already in possession of many most interesting relics, some of which might, we think, occupy a more honored position than that of being in the way in the Library. There are many more Harvard relics which are but lightly valued in the indifferent hands into which they have fallen, and could therefore be easily secured. These relics are gradually finding their...
...every closing of the college term in June sets free six hundred students, who are soon scattered to every part of this country, and, we may almost say, to every corner of the world. If we could obtain a leaf from the mental note-book of each man, we might form a cosmopolitan scrap-book of experience that would be amusing, not to say instructive. O for a telescope of unlimited power, to see our friends of the midnight oil "clothed in purple and fine linen," displaying their charms of face and figure at Swampscott or Newport, looking wise...
While such a plan as the above could do no harm, it might do much good. The first result would be to raise the general average, and hence the standard of scholarship. Every one would know at least once in two months just how he was doing, and would be stimulated to improvement. The professors would be urged to do their best, because "A" men would not attend their recitations unless they considered they really could not afford to be absent. Such a plan unites the best features of German, American, and English universities. It gives a man every privilege...