Word: practicall
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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The Germans, who stand high among nations in literary attainments, tell us that nothing is so prolific as a little known well. It is not necessary that one should confine himself to one book, or class of books, in order to do justice to the subject, for this would be...
Our hero's mind is of an entirely practical turn, and accordingly it need be no "matter of profound admiration" to you that, when the hotly contested point in archaeology as to whether the Greek ladies needed and used, or only needed, pocket-handkerchiefs, was brought before him, he dismissed...
The first few lectures were on the dignity and importance of the art, and explanatory of the scientific terms. The Professor was very philosophical in his treatment of the subject. He divided it up into motions of attack and defence, and then into motions of attack and defence for each...
And thus it is that I am surrounded by disagreeable fellows whom I don't even wish to know, all because of this new idea, so prevalent among the Faculty, of abolishing class distinctions and discouraging class feeling, and of making the privileges of the Freshman even greater than those...
The reasons of opponents are chiefly practical, such as their experience has taught them. Thus, President Eliot says that, having examined some thirty mixed colleges in the West, he has come to a conclusion hostile to them. Oberlin College, which began without distinguishing in any manner the female from the...