Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...student's theory of individual training is entirely different. He chooses men who give promise as oarsmen, and limits their exercise to rowing, until they have the oarsman's round-shouldered stoop, and lean arm, and are fit for nothing else. He selects lads with strong legs and slight upper works, and keeps them at running or football kicking until they have the legs of Hercules under the arms and chest of a school girl. He picks out boys with strong arms and full chests, but slim legs, and puts them at dumbbells, or rings, or bars, or ladders, until...
...sake of having a paper. General college news is gathered and topics of universal educational interests discussed. We can read in this that those different colleges have stepped beyond the line of the old regime, helping to round a man out generally, give him the best of everything to fit him for life and not stuff him with a stipulated amount in a particular time. The changed characters of the men are the fruit of all this...
...neglect a building which is dear to many of the alumni from the memories which cling to it. By altering the three lower stories into students' rooms, the fourth story could be left undivided and thus be still used for examination purposes. We hope that the faculty may see fit to consider this project at an early date. that steps may be taken toward making the alterations during the summer vacation. The expense would not be heavy, and the returns from room rent would pay a sufficient percentage of interest on the money expended...
...Political Economy and History be persuaded to give a course in some of the leading points of the great practical questions? It would be no more difficult for the college to arrange such a course than to arrange the classical readings in Sever 11. Should they not see fit to undertake such a project, then one of the numerous special societies, Historical Society, Finance Club, and others, of which we hear so little in public, might bring their forces together and persuade the professors to lecture under their auspices. It is certainly worth a trial and a successful effort...
...life specialty. A chief purpose of the general or college education is to afford that comprehensive view of the world of knowledge and activities which shall enable the student to make intelligent choice of the special field to which his tastes lead him and for which his personal qualities fit him. But what this general education should be, he has not the means to decide. Others must determine that for him, and these others must be those already acquainted with the wide field of general knowledge-educated educators. From this point of view elective studies have properly no place...