Word: gained
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...yearly offering, numerous concessions to the advocates of a more extended elective system were made. But for some reason the result is disappointing, for the present freshman class at Yale numbers only 134. On the other hand, the Sheffield Scientific School has a freshman class of ninety-three - a gain of ten students over last years. And the advocates of the elective system are not slow in calling the attention of their opponents in the contest in educational methods to these suggestive figures, and from them draw the obvious conclusion that the elective system, as exemplified at Harvard, is becoming...
...table printed below gives the number of students at Yale this year compared with the number last year. The slight gain comes entirely from the Scientific Department...
...allowance for temporary absence until the first of November. Students should remember the crowded condition of the hall at the beginning of last year, and if it is their intention to remain there permanently, apply at once; but in justice to the large number who will seek later to gain admission, no one ought to secure a seat unless it is his intention to retain it during the year...
...following is from the first issue of the Williams Fortnight: "The pros and cons of this question have been thoroughly discussed both by the college press and the outside world, and the general verdict is that compulsory chapel must go. A student can gain no spiritual advantage from attendance at a service against his will, and he is, moreover, provided he has reached his majority, better qualified to judge concerning such a matter, than the faculty. Leaving out the question as to spiritual benefit, the compulsory attendance at prayers cannot train a man to be more punctual than the necessity...
...down even the outlines of answers to half a dozen questions within the limit of three or four hours, shows either ignorance or imbecility. To pass an examination with success, we must not know, but only seem to know, and the man who plays the sophist best will gain the best place. It seems to be forgotten that the knowledge needed for passing an examination, and the knowledge needed for producing a great book or a great discovery, are essentially different, and therefore that the talent required in the two cases is also essentially different. At present the Chinese theory...