Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...beginning of the second half-year is justly considered a fitting time for rejoicing. There is one community in college, however, which certainly deserves our pity at this period of general mirth and festivity. We refer to the upperclassmen who are so unfortunate as to room in the north entry of Thayer. From time to time we have heard vague rumors concerning the action of certain freshmen in that entry. In the absence of any definite proof to sustain such rumors, we have passed the matter over in silence. A few nights ago, however, we had the misfortune...
...course of training the crew practices consists in running and walking three or four miles each day, generally out of doors, and then general exercise in the gymnasium, where they row from three to four hundred strokes on the hydraulic rowing machines, and then the calisthenics are finished off with a bath...
...endeavors to show that the step which Harvard took in throwing open the electives to freshmen was premature. As we have no system of school education in America which brings young fellows of eighteen or nineteen to that point of maturity in thought, and to that extent of general academical knowledge which is reached by the German gymnasia, he argues that it is, in part at least, the duty of an American University to complete this academical training. In other words, he would prefer to have prescribed work in the freshman year, at least; and for the latter years...
Another point which Mr. Brearley leaves out of consideration is that the German students generally serve a year in the army, between their graduation from the high schools and their matriculation at a university. In this active, open air life, they learn a good bit of world-wisdom which serves them well in their general intellectual development. From all this, it must be perfectly patent to every unprejudiced mind that the German student, at nineteen or twenty years of age, is more competent to make his own selections in the matter of study than we are with our imperfect...
...training ceases long before it is nearly sufficient; he is left to make shift for himself in a sea of different studies, and there is no denying that the average man gets hopelessly lost in it, and, as Mr. Brearley points out "educational systems are made for men in general, not for mediocre men merely, but certainly not for prodigies or exceptional cases of any kind." The Harvard man nowadays must steer between two dangers: that of becoming a narrow specialist and that of being a "dilletante," a literary or scientific "dabbler...