Word: aways
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...education at Harvard, it is singular that some provision has not been made to provide them with text books. The money spent for books is quite a large item in the college expenses of a poor young man, but there are rich students, on the other hand, who throw away many of their old books, or have them in their rooms when they graduate. If an appeal were made, and a person appointed to take charge of the matter, hundreds of discarded books would gladly be given to the cause. The books thus obtained, together with others purchased with money...
...main point of Prof. Ladd's argument refers to the comparative attendance at two colleges in question. The members of '85 at Harvard "'cared to stay away' only two exercises per week out of twelve, - that is, rather more than 12 per cent. of the whole." At Yale, for seven weeks of last term, the absences of '89 men amounted only to 3.7 per cent. of the entire number of recitations. Prof. Ladd adds, "A comparison of the two systems as actually at work in Harvard and in Yale shows, then, this remarkable fact. The irregularity of the average Harvard...
...great change within a short time in its moral sentiment as applied to many things. The childish method of going through college with as little work as possible, cutting as many recitations as is allowed, because it is "manly" so to do, hazing, etc.; all this is now done away with, because of the growth and education of public sentiment. Yet all this change from a childish to a manly mode of looking at the college course has been made within a very few years. Growth of moral sentiment in this direction has been rapid. Will not some of those...
...have to deal with, individual marks and averages must be on a coarse scale; the system I suggest will be less definite, but more correct and just, than the present system. And it will serve the purposes of the university in determining degrees and honors. But it will do away entirely with our system of class ranking, because no such individual comparison can be justly made under an elective system. Each man will simply get credit for what he has done, and he will therefore aim at true proficiency, in place of any false, superficial honor. The objection will here...
...those, who have ever experienced dormitory life at college will not testify that such a life, while it benefits the university at large by bringing together students from a much wider area of country, has also benefitted themselves as individuals by affording them strong influences toward cosmopolitanism and away from the narrowness of provincialism, toward also a wholesome independence in life and ideas and away from the narrowness of home dependencies. The trustees of the University of Pennsylvania overlook the fact that the "man" entering college has lived at home long enough not to forget his home and its many...