Word: moment
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Leaving out for the moment the technicalities of the law, there seem to be no strong reasons why some members, although not a majority of the Board, should not be apportioned among different States, according to the number of graduates in each of those States. The advantages that might accrue from such an apportionment are many, while the disadvantages are few and trivial. For, if it is true that the benefices to the University have come for the most part from localities subject to the personal influence of members of the Board, it is reasonable to conclude that, if this...
...contains some interesting information. The whole number of scholars is 69, of whom 22 are in the first class. The following statistics of the graduating class of 1878 show how successful was its preparation for college in spite of the death of Dr. Dimmock at its most critical moment: "28 in all applied at Harvard, Williams, Amherst, and Yale colleges. Of these 10 were admitted without conditions; 2 with one condition; 4 with two conditions; 2 with three conditions; 4 with four conditions; 1 with five conditions; 2 with six conditions, and only 3 failed of admission. At the same...
...contrary, co-education in college is not a success in the highest sense of the word. Eagerness to persevere in it is a dangerous tendency in American society, and we sincerely hope that the day will never come when anybody will make the powers of Harvard believe for a moment that evil would not result from co-education here...
...great part of the paper then presented is, I think, open to criticism as involving distinctions too minute to be of any moment, but the portion relating to Composition calls for especial comment Composition is not embraced in the course, and its presence on the examination-paper caused very great surprise. True, the sentences given were translations from the author read, but their selection was purely arbitrary, and to expect one to load the memory with even a quarter of the innumerable idiomatic constructions in Plautus were an evident absurdity. Is it not, too, a somewhat novel idea that...
...savings-bank just money enough to pay his college bills, cannot ask for this privilege. And yet A. B., it may be, has a rich uncle, who, as is tacitly understood, will see that he wants nothing, and will give him a salaried place in his counting-room the moment he graduates; while C. D. must incur the cost of studying a profession, and will have a mother and sisters dependent upon him for support. It is needless to multiply illustrations to show that restricted scholarships may give no encouragement to students who have most to contend with...