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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...through him that the Employment Burean was established, by means of which students who were in need of it could receive employment during the summer vacation, or when leaving college could find positions as teachers. It was purely by his efforts that the pamphlet about necessary expenses at Harvard was issued, which did much to dispel the theory that Harvard was a rich man's college...
...thought that these tests have anything about them which is connected with education, physical or mental. Yet they are being made with a view to making clear the relation of physical training to the development of quick and accurate motions and of well balanced bodies. The idea is to find out by comparison what sorts of exercise demand as a pre-requisite the most accurate mental aim and the quickest motor response and also what sorts of exercise develope these to the greatest degree. If the tests made show that with tennis, fencing, boxing and football there go varying degrees...
...from one of these types to the other. They are no at all alike but they can live and work side by side. All three types are needed, the priest to preserve the good of the past, the prophet to help us on, and the philosopher to help us find the truth. The perfect man will be the one combining these three types...
...creation of the writer's imagination. The sophomore very much overestimates the importance which the college authorities attach to athletic contests. He says that "especial leniency is shown in the class room and examination hall to men in training," etc. If he will look into the matter he will find that though the athlete in training may have a few more "cuts" granted him, he has to pass the same examination which other men pass and on the same standard of marking. Again, the writer cannot remember the name of any man prominent in college athletics who has since risen...
...especially physicians, and every move to make the law and medicine open only to the best men is an important step in advance. Moreover, the business of the law and of medicine and of scientific research is largely with the present and the future, and it is gratifying to find these given more and more equality with the past. The work of the college is largely with the past, which of course is of the greatest importance; the work of the special schools is to grapple with the problems of life as it is today and as it must...