Word: farness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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There is a decided lack of good material among the men who have thus far reported for the Freshman baseball team. For the team to succeed this spring it is essential that more pitchers and infielders report at once...
There is a decided lack of good material among the men who have thus far reported for the Freshman baseball team. For the team to succeed this spring it is essential that more pitchers and in fielders report at once...
...views and (3) manly character. A study of conditions at Harvard and Princeton shows that free choice is supremely efficient in promoting a vital scholarship. If this is so, is it of any consequence that students are drifting away from the so called disciplinary studies? It is not of far more consequence that they are drifting towards disciplinary effort? It is far better that a man should take studies which really to train him than studies which are supposed to train him. The value of a study to any man can be measured only by its effects upon...
...pass now to our second proposition, that the free elective system is unrivalled in the promotion of broad views. As far as it is a question of securing to the student a wide and same view of the world in which he lives, the number of studies which have an equal claim upon his attention are as numerous as the many and diverse activities of our complex modern life. In view of the fairly comparable values of the great number of studies in promoting breadth of view, it is ridiculous to fasten upon any single study or department of study...
...logic of circumstances; it is a rational system, one which contains room at all times for prescription of a definite quantity and quality of work, and at the right time--in the preparatory school--even for prescription of studies. Today a man comes to college, as old man as far advanced in his studies as former generations were by the middle or even the end of their college careers. Freshman year is the natural time for beginning election, since it marks the beginning of freedom. Let us briefly consider the advantages of the system, always remembering that...