Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...knowledge-educated educators. From this point of view elective studies have properly no place in the college course; they are an infusion of the university idea into the college, and they have the decidedly bad effect of encouraging the American tendency to 'save time' by crowding general education into fewer and fewer years so as to put the boy 'at his work' at the earliest age possible. It is a heritage from the old idea that to become a good merchant a boy must not go to college, but begin by sweeping out the store. We give little enough time...
...sciences and modern languages did not receive their full share of attention as statistics showed. In the course of his remarks he expressed the following views on the warfare now going on between the classics and the sciences: Five-and-twenty years ago, when the hours of study were fewer and the examinations less numerous, a boy had far greater opportunity of following up any special task than he had now. Subjects which did not tell had now no chance. It was very necessary, therefore, that they should ask themselves whether they were following a wise system...
...cold weather approaches and the out-door world offers fewer and fewer attractions, we wish to submit a little advice to eighty-seven in particular and to the college in general that will be borne in mind all through the long winter and for that matter all through college. Get into the habit of using the library in a thoughtful, systematic, healthful way. It is comparatively easy to form habits that do not bring one into contact with books and especial care should be taken to correct this fault at the outset. Some special courses of reading as fiction...
...other, or by which arrangements for co-operation and mutual aid in investigation can be made. If such means existed there is no doubt that in numerous higher courses, for example, in history, philosophy, or the sciences, which involve original work, much better results could be attained and fewer useless or duplicated efforts would be made. It is true that the means for the general dissemination of scientific knowledge and of the latest results of scientific investigation are to day exceedingly numerous. Nevertheless there is as yet no trustworthy means for the intercommunication of the results of class room...
...first our team's play was disappointing, but the sense of necessity braced them up, and in the second half fewer errors were made. They were noticeably deficient, however, in geting the ball, and, all in all, the game was a disappointing...