Word: commendable
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College exchanges and the public speak favorably of our cooperative scheme, and generally commend the movement, though some doubts are expressed as to its success. That cooperation has been successful in many instances in this country is an undoubted fact, but to succeed requires careful management. As some one has said, only a philanthropist ought to manage a cooperative store. The application of the system to a community of college students is certainly novel and, as far as we can learn, unprecedented, and our sister colleges will look upon our undertaking with the greatest interest. Harvard thus occupies the important...
...Western sisters (e. g. Oberlin) afford in their whole four years. This is not a matter of pride, but simply a matter of fact. This entire discussion in the Nation cannot but serve to clear the public mind on all these questions, and so is to be welcomed. We commend an examination of the Nation's articles on this matter to all college men once more...
...King has a number of copies of the last Register left. We commend it to the attention of freshmen and others who have not seen...
...reforms suggested and the substitutes proposed for the method of formal examinations as a test of progress and a measure of ability, have not as yet much commended themselves to college governors. In the English Literature classes of Prof. Tyler at the University of Michigan, several years since, an alternative was offered his students by which those who wished could escape the terrors of examination by a simple but effective remedy. Those men who were willing to do a certain prescribed amount of collateral reading were excused attendance at the ordeal which the rest had to endure. Indeed, we believe...
...observing and logical "Father" writes to the Nation apropos President Porter's report with its accompanying theories of paternal college government. We commend his points to anxious fathers generally. This is his eminently sensible argument: "If my son can, whereever I send him, do with his evenings in a college building, or who knows where else, what he chooses, and with all the time he spends in his own room or anybody else's what he chooses, in what important particular are his morals safer under the most than under the least paternal of college governments?" This correspondent's postscript...