Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...writing and otherwise, upon the subject of giving out the marks for the mid-year examinations. There are several instructors who refuse to let their class even know the marks until the average for the year comes out in midsummer. This seems to us rather unfair. A man cannot work as zealously and conscientiously if he is utterly in the dark as to his standing or his chances of getting through a course for the year. If a man gets a low mark on the mid-years and knows it he can apply himself more diligently to that particular course...
...founders could only recognize what a true university is, and devote their money to the few such that we have in America, it would be much more useful in aiding the higher education of Americans than is the present craze of founding universities. The "Presto, change!" of a millionaire cannot turn his money-bags into a university any more than he can manufacture a Rueben's by daubing $10,000 worth of paint upon a canvas. A true university ought to be the intellectual centre of a country, a place not only where a student can study the arts...
Such an educational centre must necessarily be of slow growth. It cannot be puffed up by money alone, but it needs a recognized intellectual superiority; neither can it flourish if it lacks financial support. Millionaires about to dial If you wish to leave a university behind you, take note of the fable of the frog and the ox. Puff not up the frog, but give good pasture to the ox.- Advertiser...
...seems almost useless to repeat our exhortation to men to come forward and make these weekly contests a success. But we cannot see the discouragement that such a response as has been made to their efforts must cause the management of the Athletic Association without making one more appeal to men in college. There must certainly be a great many men who have the ability that these meetings tend to develop who have made no effort to be present at them. The examinations will be over to-day, and we hope to see the men who have offered "grinding...
...editorial quoted suggests the remedy. It lies with the colleges, not with the schools, for the latter shape their curriculum according to the requirements for admission to college. Let us require, then, in our entrance examinations a knowledge of one or two of the principal American authors. The schools cannot help following our lead in this matter, and it may be the means of lifting from the eyes of the average college student the mist of ignorance of the literature and history of his own country which now envelops...