Word: age
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...present age of graduation is too far advanced, the time required for securing the degree being unnecessarilly long.- (a) For those intending to study for the learned professions.- (b) For those intending to enter business.- (x) The college graduate is now too much handicapped by the four years spent at college in securing a general education.- (c) For those who intend to enter literary or intellectual pursuits.- (x) The degree of A. M. is now almost necessary for those intending to become teachers, specialists, etc.- (d) This difficulty cannot be sufficiently obviated by lowering the age of entering college...
...already secured without value of degree being lowered.- (1) Students may now enter professional schools after three years' work.- (x) Those who need to do so may now secure their degree in three years.- (d) Time of preparation for college should be shortened if desire is to lower age of entering professions: Min. Rep., p. 19.- (1) This is entirely feasible: S. C. Bartlett in Education, XI, p. 590.- (x) Foreign preparatory schools show this.- (y) Our preparatory schools could be improved-(A) In amount taught.- (B) in the time employed: C. W. Eliot in Atlantic, LXII...
...President's report, of which a digest was published in the CRIMSON some weeks ago, contains some interesting statistics upon the average ages of the entering classes of the University. From 1865 until 1880 the average age of the freshman classes was 18 and a fraction. This fraction gradually grew larger until in 1881 the age was 19. Two years later it fell to 18 years and 9 months. In 1887 it rose again to 19, where it remained, varying a few months each year, until 1894, when the average age of the entering class was 18 years and 117/12...
These figures are of considerable interest. In the opinion of President Eliot, expressed in his Report, the age, though showing an improvement in the last few years, is still too high, and the President's opinion is probably shared by the majority of those who are interested in the subject. But whether it is a good thing to reduce the age of these entering classes below eighteen is an open question and there are many and strong arguments against doing so. To begin with, a man gets more good from a university education if he is somewhat matured when...
...does not help the man who intends to enter a profession to begin his college course at the age of seventeen, for it has frequently been proved that the man who begins to practice his profession at twenty-three gains no advantage over the man who begins active work at twenty-six. The world shuns the very young practitioner, and turns to the older man, even though he has no greater experience or skill. The young man does not find the positions open to him today that the young man of twenty years ago did. The places are now being...