Word: neither
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...also be taken in selecting a man to teach such a course which admits of great partisanship. He should be able to give a faithful account of all the events that would come up in the course. Nothing injures a student more than a partisan instructor. He should be neither an Anglomaniac, a Francomaniac, a Conservative, a Radical, a Republican or a Democrat...
...find when they have graduated that there are a good many things of practical, every day importance which they have yet to learn. To those of us who intend to make journalism our life work, a course in contemporaneous history would be of inestimable benefit, and as we are neither few nor far between, our claims are worth considering. Let us hope something will be done in the near future to supply our wants...
...remarks, that this time of the year always suggests, on the manner of conducting examinations. We have already published some advice to proctors, which doubtless will not be heeded. We hope in addition that the rooms where examinations are held will be kept at a respectable temperature. Neither a very cold nor a very warm room is favorable to prolonged mental activity. Again we hope that instructors, proctors, and students will treat their examinations fairly. "College honor" is no thoughtless phrase, and it should appeal to everyone who would be called a "College...
...soothing to note that few take the trouble to expose the fictitious corruption of our smaller, and less famed colleges. The public neither knows nor cares about these humbler institutions. So, on the whole, it is best to take any newspaper slander as a delicately concealed compliment to our importance. If the New York World tells entertaining fibs about Yale, it is merely the New York World's way of saying that Yale is powerful and renowned, and that people wish to know all they can about her. Harvard too has often been flattered in this manner. She and Yale...
...life at Harvard improves neither of these classes; they probably will not graduate as scholars, certainly not as men. But how about the large class of students who come here with tolerably good characters and intentions? Are they benefitted or harmed by the vice which surrounds them? A moralist of the old school would be shocked at the thought of a man's character being strengthened by contact with wickedness. But such is unquestionably the case. If indeed, his knowledge is of vice which is repellent and disgusting, then, although he may be all the more firmly resolved to shun...