Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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What the country is asking for now is an education which shall fit into a man's life and work in this age, and help him to be of use to society as well as to make the most of himself. Such an education must be to a degree a suggestive one; it must teach a man how to think even more than what to think, and must from its very nature abandon the old rut of thought. The favor with which the "new subjects" are received shows plainly how undergraduate feeling is disposed toward them. Men at college fully...
...heartily tired of replying to the puerile attacks the Yale Courant has seen fit to make upon us in its endeavor to prove certain "facts" that we have already commented on in regard to the freshman game. If that sheet would only resume the reasonable tone it used to show occasionally some time ago, and would use a little good sense, or better, a little common fairness when dealing with Harvard, we should be most happy to refer to it. But so long as it descends to such impertinence as its past issue exhibits, its remarks can only be treated...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON-We regret to notice in the new Elective Pamphlet for 1884-85 that the faculty have not yet seen fit to do away with the paying of extra fees where Chemistry and Natural History courses are elected. The majority of men while in college elect twelve full courses, and the instruction in these costs them $450. A student intending to make Chemistry a profession would naturally elect besides six miscellaneous courses, courses 1 to 6 in Chemistry. Chemistry 1 and 2 have extra fees of $10 each, the other four courses, of $15 each. Thus...
...faculty of Cornell University have just issued a pamphlet entitled, "What Profession Shall I Choose, and How Shall I Fit Mayself for It," which is intended especially for those yet undecided about taking a college course...
...days seemed to be considered allowable. Whether or not the student was fulfilling those purposes, was supposed to be indicated by the result of his examinations. Still, the faculty, while allowing considerable liberty to the student, always retained the right to insist upon his attending recitations, if they saw fit to do so. This seems to us to be all that has been conceded in the way of voluntary recitations...