Word: palladium
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Dates: during 1877-1877
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...WRITER in the Courant has been amusing himself by some slurs on Mr. Alexander Agassiz and his conduct at Springfield, said slurs beng backed by a clipping from the New Haven (!) Palladium of July 2. The half-made charge of unfairness in the Palladium time has proved unfounded; and we presume that time will also cause the Courant writer to be ashamed of having written a tirade which, while it convinces no one, can harm only the one who wrote...
...HAVE always believed that one of the most important advantages arising from that palladium of our college liberties, the elective system, was that we should be allowed to select the direction in which to grow wise. I fondly believed that after our Freshman year we were supposed to know what we wanted to learn, and that the learned professor would do his best to give us instruction in that subject and that subject only. For instance, I imagined that when a man took our Fine Arts elective he was supposed to be consumed with a burning desire for useful knowledge...