Word: doned
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...great deal of credit is due to all concerned for the intelligent manner in which the work has been done, in spite of the great handicap which the present building and equipment has placed upon it. Practically all that was hoped of this new system has been realized, while the professional pessimists who opposed its introduction have not as yet been heard from. The fact that the Harvard authorities themselves who advised against Princeton's trying the plan are now preparing to take it up is proof of the practical and useful way in which it has worked...
...frank acknowledgment that the scientific and other interests of most men today preclude their spending the time to "master" the classics in the old way of English education, and he suggests the substitution of good English translations. He adduces the fact that most reading in the classics is done by means of miserable literal translations. Why not substitute the best ones and encourage the reading of them by students...
...easy to exaggerate the amount of "gerund-grinding" done in college courses. Professors usually enjoy this work no more than students; and those who have taken courses in the University beyond the necessarily irksome one dealing with Xenophon's daily progress know that the human and literary side of the classics form the greatest part of the interest of the instructor. It is, however, true that most men have not the time, or think they have not the time, to study the classics in the original language. There is a course on Greek tragedy for upper-classmen conducted in English...
...expended for any particular department of the University, but Harvard must invest and care for the principal of the fund, expend the income and carry out the purposes of the trust. It may not delegate these duties to any other institution, and the principal question is whether it has done so by the Agreement with Technology...
...Yale men, whose records have been considered, bear out this theory. Yale men who stood high in their classes as undergraduates have done the best work at the Harvard Law School, and those who were students with ordinary records continued on about the same plane in the Law School...