Word: spencer
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...subject; yet those very qualities which made it interesting detracted from its merit as an essay; it contained too many illustrations and anecdotes. On the other hand, its form was too scientific for the general reader, and its theory was too palpably modelled after that of Mr. Herbert Spencer to leave it one spark of originality. Yet the essay showed a wide knowledge of the subject, was well arranged and written, and as a whole made a good impression...
...Philosophy 4 the text-book will be Spencer's Principles of Psychology, instead of Bain's works, as advertised. This change is rendered necessary by the impossibility of obtaining the latter books...
...George Miller Pinney, William Henry Potter, Robert Johnson Hare Powell, George Hyde Preston, George Sharp Raymer, Edward Prescott Reed. Herbert Howard Roberts. Warren Merton Robinson, Alfred Harri on Rogers, Barney Sachs, Thomas Jordan Sauzade. William Henry Schaefer. Samuel Shepherd. Paul Shorey. James Fulton Slade, Herbert Weir Smyth Alfred Warner Spencer, William Antonius Spirney, George Hermon Steams, William Oskman Stearns, Russell Sturgis, George Eliab Sturtevant, William Sullivan, David Arthur Taggart, Frederick Weston Taylor, Henry Osborn Taylor, Hubert Engelbert Teschemacher, Nathaniel Niles Thayer, Charles Bayard Trail, Bayard Tuckerman, Paul Tuckerman, James Arthur Tufts, Hermann Francis Vickery, Charles Henry Vinton, Henry Prince Warden...
...AEschines de Corona. 3. Greek Composition. In Latin, 1. Cicero de Officiis. 2. Lucretius de Rerum Natura, Book VI. 3. Tacitus's Germania, for which Halm's text will be used. They will also be examined in reading and translating Latin at sight. In Mental Science, I. Herbert Spencer's First Principles. 2. Herbert Spencer's First Principles of Psychology, Vol. 1. In Mathematics, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, Analytics, Differential and Integral Calculus...
...cannot make him a broad Greek scholar, but will only force him to cram these subjects till he knows them by heart. Such an examination is no test of his ability to read the language. Again, it is necessary for a well-educated man to be familiar with Herbert Spencer; but it is destructive to all true scholarship to urge students to devote so much time and energy to the study of a single author who has not yet completely won his spurs in the field of philosophy...