Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...help them ascertain that honor, and they would ask that the same consideration they demand for themselves be given to their fellows. Public opinion is weak at Harvard to-day because it is not allowed to grow. Men are "suspects" the minute they enter the examination room. You cannot make a man morally strong by making him feel that he is watched. Men must be made to know that confidence is placed in their honor. Professor James has tried the plan. At the hour examinations given to his classes this year and last, no proctor was placed in the room...
...many complaints which are annually made in regard to the mid-year examinations, there is one which is certainly justifiable. If we must have a police force of proctors to spy upon us during examinations to see that we don't cheat, converse, or otherwise misbehave ourselves, why cannot we have detectives endowed with a little delicacy of feeling? At an examination yesterday, the man in front of me finished his paper about three-quarters of an hour before the time was up. Immediately a proctor strolled along, his boots creaking like the doors in Sever, took up the blue...
...While the cold weather lasts it is imperatively necessary that everything should be done to make the upper examination rooms in Sever comfortable. Last Friday some of the rooms were absolutely unbearable. Ordinarily a man can go out from a recitation if the room is too cold, but one cannot do that in an examination. One is compelled to sit and shiver, not able to collect his faculties. Thus he does not do himself justice, and yet he runs the risk of getting a sickness which he may not be able to throw off for months. It is unfortunate that...
...lost somewhat, as it is less essential to the professional and business man; while the entrance Greek gives a good idea of the language and literature. Latin, however, has held its own, as it is indispensable in law and medicine, besides giving a mental training which the modern languages cannot supply. The proposal of the medical and law faculties deserves special commendation. In this age of competition few men can really afford to spend seven or eight years of the best part of their lives in unrenumerative study. The young man who goes into business is already earning his living...
...Newspapers are conducted too much as if they were mere money-making ventures. There are some occupations which have so important an effect on the general prosperity that they cannot be carried on, with safety to the community, as if their sole object was to make money...