Word: apprenticeship
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...deem the best preparation to be an apprenticeship in a well-arranged library; but it is not easy to find such opportunities. The oversight and introduction of new people in a library is a disadvantage to that library, as interfering with its work, which few head librarians are willing to encounter unless it is necessary to recruit the library staff. Hence a special department has been instituted at Columbia College in New York, called the school of "Library Economy" which is under the direction of Melville Dewey, the secretary of the American Library Association. They have teachers specially provided...
...literary organization until well into the junior year. If a sophomore forerunner were established it might give the eminence not to the most deserving, but to those who have been most forward with their talents-something which is not likely to occur at present, owing to the long apprenticeship which must be undergone before any tangible compensation is afforded...
Nearly all college students are accustomed to celebrate in some way their joy at the completion of their apprenticeship to mathematics. Some of them when they have finished the Trigonometry bury it with more or less solemn rites; others burn it at the stake, and others resort to more hilarious performances. At Vassar the middle of the sophomore year closes the study of trigonometry and is also the end of the prescribed course, and the students thereafter are permitted to elect what branches they will pursue. It is therefore an important epoch in college life, and the "Trig Ceremonies...
...writing and publishing. We believe that to-day the poems in college papere are among the most attractive features, and do not expect than any but such severe critics as Mr Howells can wish the young writers checked in their writing. No art can afford to be without an apprenticeship...
...another column will be found a most amusing collection of conjectures. One pauses, even in the midst of his laughter, to wonder how sub-freshmen could have acquired so happy a faculty of snap-shot answering before going through the collegiate apprenticeship which most of us have served. But practice makes perfect, and the time may come when these same men will be able to enter a course at the mid-years, and, without purchasing a book, read the section by pure force of faultless sight translation and blindly audacious guessing, as was actually done in a classical course...