Word: fears
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...over-trained, and while she does possess a little talent, she is devoid of the fire of genius, as Mary Anderson. Miss Mather is designed by her managers to burst upon the astonished gaze of the American public with all the effulgence of last year's comet; but we fear that with whatever eclat her advent is heralded, she will fail utterly to dazzle her beholders...
When the announcement was made some time ago that steps should be taken to get up a new college song book, every one seemed so pleased with the project that we entertained no fear of its success, but lately it has been shown that the impression was wrong, although two meetings of the committee appointed have been held; at neither, was it possible to take any action in the matter, from the fact that not a sufficient number of the committee were present. The book proposed is certainly something that is desirable, and even needed, and we trust that enough...
...have reason to think that by a very little effort on the part of the managers of base-ball, the project might readily be brought to a successful issue. The advantages of the scheme are obviously commendable, and the objections to its inauguration seem mainly to consist of the fear that this extra nine will not be good enough to give the 'Varsity sharp practice, and that "Harvard indifference" will cause a failure of candidates to appear for this nine. To this latter objection we can only instance the scrub games that have gone on for many years behind...
...selected in this way, the most worthless are weeded out during the first year, under a very watchful process, which rests finally upon the test of frequent examinations. The actual depletion of the freshman class through direct dropping at Christmas-time and in June, and voluntary surrender under fear of dropping, is ten per cent. The same process is repeated in the following years." This preparation has been especially directed to prepare the student to develop the power of self-direction, and not merely to make him acquainted with certain subjects...
...been long established ; it has the prestige of the authority of European educators to support it. But in spite of this, it is fast proving itself unsuitable for American methods of instruction. The writer of the article on German student life in the last number of the Crimson, we fear, delivers a true commentary on American students, when he says that there is observable, in both American and German students, one common quality-"a remarkable tendency to shirk work," or at least, to postpone work until the final examination is at hand. This condition of things is plainly...