Word: objectiveness
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...however, it comes to a question of a man's working hard or working in fact not at all, we are heartily in favor of the former, What is wanted is a broader and more liberal education, and not the process of forcing a boy along with the only object in view of passing a good entrance examination. This would effectually remove any temptation to overfit and would result much better for both boy and college...
...assistant master at Harrow from 1855 to (I think) 1871, chiefly under the mastership of Dr. Vaughan. That system, though much improved by Dr. Vaughan, still preserved and preserves the old traditions and arrangements of the school which made a very full and finished classical education the one great object, to which all other branches were made subordinate. As a natural result, Harrow has for long sent out a very large number of men, who have won Classical Scholarships and other high class honors in the Universities, but has seldom produced scholars of much ability in other departments...
...comet of 1812, which for several weeks has been within telescopic range is now visible to the naked eye. It is but a faint object yet, but will increase in brightness until January 25, when it reaches its perihelion...
...operative Society calls attention to a circumstance which the members ought to bear in mind, namely, that the society is, so to speak, a family institution, existing only for the benefit of those connected with the university, and with no other purpose. It has not for its object any injury to the trade of dealers in Cambridge or any lowering of their general scale of prices, but merely the providing of the members with needed goods at the lowest possible cost. This seems silf-evident, but it is not always borne in mind by members or by outsiders. We learn...
...game, and naturally attempts to lay the whole blame upon our side. It says : "They now propose to play '87 at Providence on the Saturday after Thanks-giving, which will deprive many who expect to go home at that time of the pleasure of witnessing the game. They object to playing at Hartford on the ground that Providence is more nearly equi-distant from Yale and Harvard. This objection to Hartford seems rather unbecoming when it is remembered that Providence is over three-quarters of an hour nearer Boston than New Haven, and that for the last two years Yale...