Word: failings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...solely at practical ends, attention is called to the department of fine arts in a way at once pleasing and elevating. Mr. Herkomer enjoys a high reputation as a scholarly critic, and is a man of refined tastes. Anything that he will be led to say cannot fail to interest those who listen to him. College students are slowly arriving at an appreciation of the fine arts and the benefit to be derived from a study of them, and can understand the weight which men of culture give the subject. We trust that Mr. Herkomer will be greeted with...
...second place, does Harvard give degrees to those "who dwell for four years within her sacred precincts of learning?" If we are not mistaken, solid work in sixteen courses, or their equivalent, is required before a degree is obtained. At Brown, before a man loses class standing he must fail to receive fifty per cent. in three examinations at any one examination period. Such a rule permits as much undisturbed "dwelling" at Brown as is possible at Harvard. We have heard of a certain beast braying in a lion's skin, but nothing so analogous to this fable has happened...
...short time before the nine displays in the field the results of the steady and energetic work done in the gymnasium. The outlook for the crimson is very bright. Nothing ensures success like the consciousness of success already won, and the record of last year's nine cannot fail to stimulate to every effort the nine of the present year. With the men now trying for positions we have every reason to be satisfied. Enough men of the old team remain to form a splendid body to which the new material can be added. The new men, too, give promise...
...every college man who has not pursued the study of law. It is to meet such a defect in college training, as the lack of a knowledge of law, that books like "Every Man His Own Lawyer," and "Woman Before the Law" have been written, - books that must fail to accomplish their end. A knowledge of common law to be valuable must be gained from practical sources. A competent and thorough instructor, the very best that could be procured, who would devote his interest to such a course might make it the most popular, perhaps, of all the college courses...
...just authority while it grants a just liberty." The twenty-one pages, on which is a complete record of every member of the classes of '84 and '85 for the sophomore, junior, and senior years, this record comprising the courses elected and the ranks attained, contain data that cannot fail to carry with them most convincing evidence of the successful operation of the elective system. The subjects of specialization of studies, coherency of choices, information and advice, easy and large courses, and common intellectual life are carefully treated. Of the last President Eliot says: "The working of the elective system...