Word: correct
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Prof. James wishes to correct the statement in the elective pamphlet that Philosophy 3 is an introductory course...
...graduating class and was therefore entitled to speak) urged that the system of placing "honors" at graduation before the pupil at her entrance into school as the chief object of her endeavors "induced a nervous strain incompatible with her highest physical or mental development. The system was not a correct index to either ability or industry; it led to superficial work, done mainly with a view to gain high marks, and the motives for study induced by it are unworthy ones." It is not Vassar College alone to which this protest is applicable; it might be urged in almost every...
Second - The system unavoidably fails, in some cases, to be a correct index of ability or industry. That would perhaps be a matter of small moment were it not that the public is prone to consider success or failure in gaining an honor the infallible test of a student's attainments. There are instances in which ill health, mobility to pursue a continuous course or other unavoidable circumstances prevent a student of genuine merit from reaching the required standard of excellence; and she is consequently, through no fault of her own, placed, in the judgment of outsiders, upon a level...
...will relieve the anxiety of the alumni to learn that the impression conveyed by the semi-official announcement is not altogether correct, and that the college authorities will not undertake to interfere in any way with the entertainment provided at the reunions of the different classes. So the alumni can indulge themselves as of yore, with none to molest or make them afraid. The only change in the programme this year will be the omission of the entertainment usually provided for the graduating class by the class next preceding it; and with this part of the festivities omitted, there...
...vote to bestow them where they are undeserved, is an absurdity. "Popularity" which is to be lost in this way is better lost than gained. Matters have not yet come to such a pass in Massachusetts that an individual or an institution will lose anything by adherence to correct and consistent principles...