Word: entering
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...body of men, varying in numbers between one hundred and fifty and two hundred, enter college together. For the most part they are strangers to each other, and the vast differences in antecedents, in habits, in tastes, and in character which cannot but be found among them, prevent them from forming one great circle of friends. They cannot but separate into cliques, more or less distinct; and they cannot in four years become so completely familiar with the character of every classmate that they can unhesitatingly declare that a certain man is best fitted to hold a certain office...
...sight appear unjust. That many excellent men might be excluded from positions which they are fitted to hold cannot be denied; but in this, as in all political matters, the subject must be regarded in a very general way. It should be remembered that the members of every class enter college, as infants enter the world, on perfectly equal terms, and that the subsequent differences in their positions are due in a great degree to their antecedents, to their characters, and to their abilities. And, on the whole, it can hardly be denied that this oligarchical method will...
...instance, when he attacks Mr. Allen for using constructions which are sanctioned by the usage of Ovid and Horace. Of course, we do not suppose that the majority of our readers are interested in this discussion, and we therefore do not intend to enter into it very fully, though we are always very glad when our professors find our columns useful in their discussions...
...coals one after another with a view to show their blunders, and the article is closed by "seriously asking the question, Whether this is the same Joseph H. Allen whose Latin grammar Harvard University recommends to its students, assuring them that it is sufficient for their preparation to enter on the advanced course of that institution." (The italics are copied from the "A. E. M.") Few could gather from such a question that the Catalogue of Harvard College really says: "No particular text-book in grammar is required; but either Allen's or Harkness's Elementary Latin Grammar will serve...
...were interesting, and a decided improvement on previous meetings, both in their management and in the time made by the contestants. Still the time was in some cases too slow, and the number of contestants too few. That out of more than seven hundred men only twenty-seven should enter for such contests is absurd, and shows a great lack of interest on the part of the students in general...