Word: developed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Here follow the names of the winners of the prizes offered for the greatest general development. It was thought fairer to take the increase in strength and development both, as one man might develop more by natural growth than another. The prizes are not yet quite ready, but probably will be by commencement...
...They see, if teachers do not, that the real object of education in American colleges should be not to elevate the reputation of this or that college or faculty, nor to train a few exceptional intellects among pupils, nor even for a time to foster high scholarship, but to develop the capabilities of every grade of students, to encourage, not stamp upon, the dull, stimulate the idle, fit even the most stupid for the humble place that he will hold. The faculty and college that soonest recognize this fact and act upon it will not only command the gratitude...
...superficial work, or at least to work done mainly with a view to class-room recitation. A student spurred by the desire to gain high marks is apt to do merely the work which she feels will conduce to this end. Her college course thus signally fails to develop those scholarly habits of thought and study which it is the aim of the higher education to establish...
...induced by the system are, we believe, unworthy ones, and especially unworthy of students who are to go into the world as exponents of the higher education of woman. The spirit of emulation - the desire to shine, at any cost, on commencement day are not the motives which will develop the students of Vassar College into worthy daughters of their alma mater, and these are the incentives to work which the present honor system in too many cases engenders. In view, then, of these reasons, and in view of the fact that, as students, we have infinitely better opportunities...
...think in time we will develop a great university...