Word: aging
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...intellectual power. The examiners try to ask, not "How much do you know"? but "Are you qualified to profit by instruction in Harvard College"? As a means of determining the extent of this qualification, a considerably smaller set of requirements would be more efficient; for at the average age of candidates for admission, the attempt to cover the present field is ordinarily attended by a parrot-like grasp of unrelated details, but by no real mastery or assimilation of the subjects. If the examiners insisted on higher standards in fewer subjects, however, the result would be two-fold: the candidates...
Again, by cutting down the number of entrance subjects required, it should be possible to reduce the average age of entrance to the College. This is a factor which would aid materially in the influence and worth of the Freshman dormitory system, and is a point not to be overlooked...
Those students who advocate classical education deplore the present lack of interest in the classics. They find as the chief reason for this neglect the scientific and materialistic tendencies of the age, manifested in the colleges in the popularity of so-called practical courses. No doubt this accounts in large part for the conditions, but it is also worth while to ask whether Interest in the classes might not be stimulated by different methods of teaching. Many a general student would be glad to continue his Greek and Latin in College if he had assurance that they would be presented...