Word: gained
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...plainly that they are going to excess in sports. Let them encourage those colleges that are seeking to lay restraints on the evil. Some colleges are refusing to join in the exertions we are making, not to stop sports, but to keep them within due bounds. These colleges may gain the championship in games, but let the public know that it is not to their credit or for the good of the students committed to their care by fathers and mothers. It may come to this, that we have to refuse to allow our students to play with those colleges...
...pupil at her entrance into school as the chief object of her endeavors "induced a nervous strain incompatible with her highest physical or mental development. The system was not a correct index to either ability or industry; it led to superficial work, done mainly with a view to gain high marks, and the motives for study induced by it are unworthy ones." It is not Vassar College alone to which this protest is applicable; it might be urged in almost every public and private school in the country. There is hardly a thoughtful parent who does not know that...
Third - We believe that the present system leads, in many instances, to superficial work, or at least to work done mainly with a view to class-room recitation. A student spurred by the desire to gain high marks is apt to do merely the work which she feels will conduce to this end. Her college course thus signally fails to develop those scholarly habits of thought and study which it is the aim of the higher education to establish...