Word: devotees
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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At our colleges, as commonly conducted, a young man gets only a general training. He is fitted for no specific work, and oftentimes his energies are rather scattered than concentrated there. When he leaves he is ready for no practical employment-perhaps is not so well fitted for useful and...
"In America the system has never gained much ground, but at Harvard it is becoming more common every year. A tutor usually gets for tutoring classmates, $1 per hour; for tutoring those in classes below him, $2 per hour; while a graduate tutor usually gets $3 per hour. These prices...
There is a curious article on "College Life" in the volume. Its thesis is this: "Our situation here is utterly unnatural; necessarily so, perhaps, but that it is so - that four or five hundred youth, collected from their homes, far and near, and housed together for four years, to read...
It is difficult to see what objection the faculty can offer to the plan of holding examinations for conditioned men of other classes as well as of the freshmen in the fall. Many men who are so unfortunate as to receive conditions, would be very willing to devote a considerable...
The undeniable tendency of our day is towards the gradual loosening of all the time-honored and traditional ties of college and class custom, and, using the word in the etymological sense, the gradual vulgarizing of all the old and peculiar institutions of college life. This year, indeed, has seemed...