Word: fg
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...university affords the undergraduate better preparation in regard to the actual learning it gives him.- (a) The range of studies he may pursue is larger: Four American Universities, 26 fg.- (1) As is shown by comparison of the courses offered by Harvard with those offered by Amherst or Williams.- (b) The student is afforded better facilities for the pursuit of one course of study in its higher branches: Educational Review VII, 26; Graduates' Magazine, I, 48-49; President Eliot's Report for 1891-2; Four American Universities. p. 26 fg.- (1) He has better equipped libraries and laboratories...
...which he is interested.- (2) He can avoid branches disagreeable to him.- (3) The presence of graduate workers acts as a constant incentive to him.- (4) He is stimulated by more sympathetic intercourse with his instructors.- (b) It leads to "Emancipation of Thought"; Educational Review, IV, 366; VII, 313 fg.; Graduates' Magazine II, 468.- (1) It tends to break down conventional dogma.- (2) It accustoms the student to think for himself.- (c) It increases the student's self-reliance and self-respect: Educational Review, VII, 26, 325; Graduates' Magazine, II, 468; Harvard Monthly, XV, 93; Four American Universities, 17 fg...