Word: twofold
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...neglect of the classics, and other subjects which would be at once more congenial, more useful, and more improving. Freshmen should study mathematics without doubt, but it is manifestly unnecessary to force them to study four different kinds, besides mechanics and chemistry. The effect of this system is twofold: to make the Freshman year very disagreeable and expensive to those students who have not mathematical minds, and to fill the pockets of private tutors, who expect a large compensation for the disagreeableness of the occupation which they pursue. The excessive amount of mathematics required in the Freshman year is profitable...
...article entitled the "College Bible" which appeared in the last number of the Advocate, the insidious and baleful influence of the New York Nation was alleged to account for the so-called trait of Harvard indifference." This twofold challenge to the student and the Nation appeals to a state of things in College and to an iconoclastic tendency in the Nation which fail to reveal themselves, I think, to the observer who is conversant in any true sense with the phenomena in question...
...retains him in primary teaching and come to secondary teaching. With you the one runs naturally into the other; the second is, so to speak, but the prolongation of the first. With us there is no connection between them, no transition from one to the other. This involves a twofold inconvenience. First, for the scholar; if his aptit des show themselves tardily, and he then wishes to pursue classical studies, he is obliged to begin his course of study at an age when those who at the outset embraced secondary instruction have accomplished nearly the half of their course...
...Emperor. Therefore Hildebrand deliberately planned the conquest of the island. At the proper time he both protected his Norman tools in front, by excommunicating Harold, and guarded their rear by satisfactory assurances that the French should not aggress upon their native territory. His gain was to be twofold; the favor conferred would bind the powerful Normans more closely to the Church, and another prop would be knocked from under the Empire...
...crews to represent all departments of a university; that, therefore, it would be a courteous thing in Harvard and Amherst to waive their strictly legal advantage, and grant, as an equitable claim, what could not be demanded according to the letter of the rules. To this there is a twofold answer. In the first place, inasmuch as Yale's right to pick her crew from the Sheffield School was not perfectly clear, she should have sent, months ago, a notice of her intention to her opponents, with an explanation of her reasons. Had this been done, the reasons would have...