Word: goods
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Freshman year are still prescribed. The reform will reach this class in due time. We believe, however, that it is an error to require a greater number of hours in the first year, - in studies, too, in which the student is deprived of a selection. There is good ground also for the complaint often heard respecting the severe requirements of the Freshman year in the various branches of Mathematics. These are so difficult that many students become discouraged and disgusted to such a degree that few electives in Mathematics are ever chosen. The result is that students...
...Suppose the doors were too strong, you fool!" says a student of fine arts. "What we want is good architecture; our College dormitories are not suitable for men of culture...
...rescue is most unparalleled, perhaps improbable; but I had to be saved somehow, and I appeal to you whether it is not far more likely that a man would be saved by the Lacrosse Club than by our system of college patrols and unmanageable fire-ladders. Gentlemen, good night...
...practice of reserving books at the Library is a good one, but it is carried to such an excess by some instructors that it is fast becoming a nuisance. So many copies of the texts required in studying for Honors are reserved, that those who have occasion to work outside of the Library complain that they cannot get any editions. It is useful to have enough copies of a play reserved to enable each of the candidates that are at work in the Library to have a book; but when an instructor puts every good edition on the reference shelves...
...effect of the new system on the "middle class," the moderately good scholars, it is asserted that these men will be encouraged to take "soft" electives and to work for marks. This, apparently, is the only sound objection that has been offered; but the writer does not seem to realize that this is an evil, not of the new system merely, but of any honor-system whatever. So long as honors are offered men are likely to neglect their real gain in working for them. It must be borne in mind that an honor-system necessarily starts with the supposition...