Word: aims
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...view to class-room recitation. A student spurred by the desire to gain high marks is apt to do merely the work which she feels will conduce to this end. Her college course thus signally fails to develop those scholarly habits of thought and study which it is the aim of the higher education to establish...
...unpleasant features of the class days of the past has been the presence of undesirable persons in the yard. It has been the constant aim of all class-day committees to keep the yard as free from outsiders as possible and to have it especially reserved for the seniors and their friends. In former years, however, it has always been possible to purchase yard tickets in the stores outside the square, and even Sanders and Memorial tickets were to be had. The probable reason for this has been that the members of the class who did not wish to make...
...could compete with such nations as England. Germany, and France in the matter of colleges. Professor Palmer followed. He claimed that the greatest opportunities were offered to a student entering Harvard. His success depended on his judgment and himself generally, as a matter of course, but Harvard was aiming more than any other college in America to discipline the character of her students. Harvard did not want to see her students go out into the world undecided what to do. She did not want to make their four years at college only four years of boyish study. What...
...modern tongue; the study of Latin through Caesar, Tacitus, Virgil and Livy; mathematics through conic sections, with especial attention to surveying and other practical applications; and a careful and thorough study of Arabic, the language of the interior. History and the modern languages are also studied. The aim of the institution is to furnish a practical, useful education to the young men of the country. Dr. Blyden appreciates the merits of the elective system, but feels that the country is too young, and the cause of education too limited, to allow its practical application in Liberia. Dr. Peabody is president...
...make four grades, which appear on the diploma and certify to the actual average work the student has accomplished. The lowest grade corresponds to two, on the scale of five. A mark of three gives one cum laude; four, magna cum laude, and five, summa cum laude. The aim of this marking system is to make the nominal mark correspond to the actual work done. The six or eight in the class who attain the highest average ranks appear on the commencement stage, thus general ability is encouraged rather than proficiency in special lines of study. The best four...