Word: statement
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...than good to the cause he professes to have at heart. Our hopes in this way are brightened by some recent utterances of his given in the course of a newspaper interview, wherein Mr. Wilde shows so much discernment and just appreciation that it almost seems that a mere statement of his case to him by an impartial friend would convince him of his error and induce him to withdraw from his unfortunate enterprise. When questioned as to his famous opinion about the Atlantic, he explained it (we are told) as follows: "Oh, that unfortunate saying! It will become historic...
...broad sense of the term. The teacher's personal interest in the student should not be diverted by ambition for renown as a scholar, nor the efficiency of his teaching encumbered by large numbers of students." This is eminently reasonable as a theory, and is really a statement of the swiftly-approaching fact as to the relations of educational institutions in this country. Such colleges as Beloit and such schools as Phillips and Adams academies are actually types of such a college; and Harvard is fast becoming such a university. At present, she is in a state of transition...
...Nation's Oberlin correspondent, on the other hand, displays such a lamentable confusion of ideas and of statement that the attempt to answer him is rather hopeless. It is to be regretted that such petty envy and calumniation in this matter should be shown by college men of any sort. It is simply misrepresentation and misstatement to say of Harvard's system that "It dazzles us with the rich variety of electives, and, somehow, produces the impression that a student can take them all in the four years." It would certainly be a very foolish person who would receive such...
...faculty of Williston Seminary at Easthampton has so far expelled seven students. Most of the senior class is still in rebellion; but with the other classes the trouble is thought to be substantially over. The faculty proposes to hold firm. The members of the senior class have prepared a statement for publication...
Very few of the business enterprises of undergraduates have ever yet made much of a success financially. Cases that seem to be exceptions to this statement have succeeded always for some exceptional reason; either because of extraordinary enterprise on the part of their projectors, or for outside support, or because of the friendly interest of associates, a few have prospered, and although it must be confessed that this lamentable fact is often due to the inertness and indifference of those who should be chiefly interested and would be most benefitted by student enterprises, yet it is unfair...