Word: americans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Hodgson's "Errors in the Use of English." American revised edition...
...Princetonian, by its approval of a scheme of written examinations shows that it cannot conceive of the liberal spirit of a university, but would narrow down the life of an American student to that of the grammar-school boy. We would remind the Princetonian that our "new system of college government" is still young, that it must suffer attacks for some time(?) but we firmly believe that the day with come when the wisdom of the step will be admitted, and President Eliot's course acknowledged by all to be right...
...also attracted much attention on this side of the water; and it may well do so, for it is upon a subject-the merits and demerits of the present examination system, which has been much discussed among us of late, and is one of the problems which American educators must next solve. The discussion originated in a protest against the system of competitive examinations which appeared in the Nineteenth Century. This protest was signed by some of the most distinguished educators of the English universities and schools; all of the signatures covered fourteen pages of the review. The protest asserts...
...which intelligent men are soon forced to abandon. "This radical divergence between university training and the wise national policy which is overwhelmningly supported by the people (for very few Democrats are willing to be called free traders), is greatly to be deplored. The colleges cannot educate the mass of Americans to their doctrines, but they will alienate the university from the practical, thinking heart of the people, and displace it from the esteem and confidence in which it ought to be held by all Ultimately we believe the 'theory" will conform to the 'condition.' American colleges must be entirely American...
...most interesting article in the February number of Outing, which has just appeared, is Part II of "American College Athletics." R. M. Hurd is the contributor, and has written about Yale University. After a brief general history of early athletics at Yale, he takes up in detail the records of the elevens, the crews, the nines, and the track athletes, since 1876, and the lawn tennis players since 1883. The illustrations include full-page photographs of the champion crew and nine of '88 and the '87 eleven. There are also some interesting instantaneous photographs of hurdle jumping and pole vaulting...