Word: barriere
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...best remedied by a direct appeal to the proper authorities; a headlong dash into print not only does no good, but does much harm. Complaint in general, and unreasonable complaint in particular, gives the student the reputation of a chronic grumbler, and such a reputation is a terrible barrier to the removal of objects of complaint. We have never known a case where a kind suggestion privately to an instructor did not produce the desired effect; while we do know of many cases where even reasonable requests were refused because they appeared in print as complaints. It is therefore...
...kind of fellow-feeling with students, - from whom he is removed by only a few years? Hardly; for that would be beneath his dignity, and he seems to have forgotten the good old days when he did not get high marks, and sometimes went to sleep in recitation. The barrier that separates him from the past is impassable. He awoke one morning and found himself a professor, and he does not remember his years of chrysalis life. Do you imagine, though, that he is always in this elevated position? Oh no! every now and then, when he goes out into...
...boundaries of Cambridge, and whose acquaintance in a social way might be of great benefit to students, the number of those who show any tendency to know more of their pupils than can be learnt in two or three hours a week is limited to four or five. The barrier between these two great classes is one of no imaginary kind; it is rigid, and almost impassable...