Word: existing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...complained in England that the universities themselves have long since abdicated their teaching functions. Most of the real teaching, it is said, is provided by the unauthorized and outside system of private tutors, who exist independently of the colleges, and have, in a great degree, superseded them. In too many cases the candidate for an ordinary degree, if he wish to pass, is compelled to make use of a private tutor. His college does, indeed, provide him with a certain number of lectures, but the number is usually quite inadequate, and even if it were greater in several instances...
...think more of hard hitting than scientific sparring, and what might be otherwise interesting contests will degenerate into so-called "slugging matches." This, of course, would create personal enmity and ill-feeling, and gradually the same feelings between the colleges would be caused, where only friendly relations should exist. Let us make the inter-collegiate meetings as interesting as possible, but let good nature be characteristic of all the different contests...
Three out of the four practical university problems of the day in England, stated by Prof. Bryce in his lecture on English universities, exist as well for Harvard to solve. (1) Rightly Mr. Bryce named the reduction of expenses for students as the first of these problems. It is difficult to see any way by which this reform can be practically secured for Harvard. On the contrary, it seems as though every year the necessary expenses of students go on increasing. That something will have to be done to remedy this evil before long is more or less apparent...
...English universities, who are now much less active, because both university professors and college teachers have become far more efficient than they were then. In England, examinations have become the main thing and practically control the teaching, although the true view of them would rather be that they should exist as a test of teaching. The examinations, though very old, had become purely formal in the last century: their present importance is comparatively recent. In the Cambridge Triposes, students have heretofore (for a change is now being made) been arranged according to merit. At Oxford the arrangement has been into...
...Cooperative Association, but I should like to ask if the conduct of the gentlemen was not a little premature, who assembled a few nights ago to discuss "informally" (so it was understood) the prospects of the scheme. Officers were elected to an association which did not then exist. The audience who had gathered seemed unable to comprehend this, despite the laudable efforts of one or two gentleman who seemed desirous to impress upon them the previousness, if I may use the word, of such proceedings. I suggest that, hereafter, more careful consideration and prudence be displayed in the management...