Word: fors
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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The German student, on the other hand, is hampered by no marks, no routine, no surveillance, no compulsory recitations; he is not treated like a school-boy, and hence does not behave like one. He cannot calculate what per cent he must obtain in order to scrape through. He must...
"If it suits their convenience," she continued, not minding my interruption, "to forsake their warm rooms and their cosy fires, they may sometimes be persuaded to grace a ball-room with their presence; but as for paying visits on ladies from whom they have received attention, they generally neglect them...
Before we had finished the meal the boy had asked me about my collar and my waistcoat, and as I pride myself on the modesty of my dress, these little attentions on his part did not increase my love and affection for the child. I have always admired the sound...
The two cannot exist together, for the marks defeat the very object of the electives. If a foreign system of education be imported, the machinery that makes its working possible must be imported too.
The second objection, and the chief one with instructors, is that scholarships could not be assigned. It is a delicate matter to tell a student that he is unfit for a scholarship when his rank is not based on definite marks. In other words, a false and injurious method is...