Word: generalization
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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This question can hardly admit of a general answer, so wide is the diversity of cases both as regards the student himself and the opportunities of employment opened to him. Age is to be taken into the account. If one graduates at twenty-four or later, and is free from debt, it is better for him to enter at once on his professional studies, especially at the present time, when the freshness and vigor of youth are at a premium in some of the professions, and at a discount in none. But if one is in debt, he should keep...
...dependence and capacity of self-help which it develops, and for the habits of punctuality, order, and method which it creates or confirms. At the same time, the new social relations into which the young teacher is brought can hardly fail to be of value, as an initiation into general society, it may be into society of a high order of intelligence and culture, or if not, into conversance with portions and classes of the community with which in his professional life he will be more or less associated, from which he will have clients or patients or parishioners whom...
...slowly becoming a true university, by elevating and increasing its schools, and rapidly making the continuation of its academical or preparatory department, as such, undesirable and unnecessary to its true usefulness and growth. Under the circumstances it is not singular that the friends of education in general, and the University in particular, watch with a jealous care, and take a no less unusual than healthful interest in, any innovations or reforms which are incorporated into the schools. This concern in the reputation and growth of the University is nowhere more noticeable than in the very general interest evinced...
...present, their imposition is simply a bore, with few good results. Three hundred marks are given for six themes on a scale of seven thousand five hundred; so that a falling off of twenty-five per cent in the excellence of all one's themes would reduce one's general average only one per cent. It is scarcely to be expected that a student should devote fifteen hours to writing and rewriting a theme, when twelve hours' less application would make a difference of but one sixth of one per cent in his year's mark...
THERE is hardly an improvement for the winter that, for the money spent on it, would give more general satisfaction, than a large lamp and reflector placed outside the south door of Memorial Hall. Now, on stormy evenings, every one of five hundred men must shuffle doubtfully down the steps in the darkness, or leap boldly into the night with little idea where he will land. Ice and snow would render the descent, short as it is, uncomfortably precarious. The use of merely proposing such an improvement is, we know, questioned, but few men are generous enough to take...