Word: eliot
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...review of President Eliot's Report in our last issue, we gave an extract showing his opinion of the present system of compulsory attendance on recitations. We give below an abstract of an article written by Dr. McCosh of Princeton College, maintaining the opposite view...
...contradiction to President Eliot's statement that the system "is characteristic of American Colleges as distinguished from European Universities," Dr. McCosh says...
...telling with great pride of once stealing a fat turkey, the glory of Cambridge poultry-yards, and roasting it in the very fireplace by which we were sitting, I had fully made up my mind to break my long silence and ask him if he knew anything about Eliot's Indian College or Harvard's only Indian graduate, Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck Indus, when the door suddenly opened, and, on looking around, I discovered that it was broad daylight, that the old man had vanished, and that the new-comer was Jones. Yes, Jones, back with a racking headache...
...seems hardly fair to criticise the author's style of thinking, but we must do so in order to justly estimate the book. Almost everything that George Eliot says of men and women, or makes men and women say, is true, and for that reason interesting; but she is deficient in the crowning quality of the novelist, - ability to throw a dramatic interest over all the characters, and make the reader feel that he is learning the story of real men and women. We know that the characters of "Middlemarch" are natural, that they might exist, but we think...
...England colleges, in a recent prospectus, holds out as an inducement to students the fact that it employs no tutors. In contrast with this notion, that young teachers are to be tolerated only because older ones are not to be had, it is interesting to read in President Eliot's Report these words...