Word: higher
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that a pupil has a satisfactory knowledge of a subject of which in truth he knows only the first rudiments. The teacher does not feel sufficiently called upon to become acquainted with the exact state of his pupil's knowledge. So it comes about that or promotion into a higher class, a boy is allowed to give up entirely some branch of study which is strictly relegated to the "elementary" departments. A study which suffers more than any other from this absurd neglect is geography. Because "reading, writing and geography" are the first things a boy is taught in school...
...Both has published some statistics of over-pressure in the German schools. According to these, 64 per cent. of the scholars "who should work up to graduation are much below the normal standard of health." In Denmark, where a still higher standard of education is insisted on, a government investigation brings to light that 29 per cent. of the boys, and 41 per cent. Of the girls, suffer from over-pressure...
...years and between the mid-years and finals. This affords sufficient opportunity for the proper preparation of the subject without a conflict with the arduous work of the mid-years or finals. The plan can hardly be too highly praised, and will result almost inevitably in provoking a higher standard of work...
Your correspondent says "there is as little cheating here as at any other New England college." Probably he is right; but is it not supposed - at least outside - that Harvard means to be a little ahead of her rivals and is, and that Harvard students set higher ideals before themselves than other men? Our duty is to make this even truer in the future than...
...recent gift of Prof. E. N. Horsford, of Cambridge, to Wellesley College may well be a source of gratification to all interested in the higher education of women. By the terms of this gift the heads of the department at Wellesley are to have "Sabbatical years," after the manner of Harvard professors. Says the Cambridge Tribune: "It seems most fitting that the means for all this should have come from a citizen of Cambridge, the success of whose great university is owing in no small measure to the self-sacrificing efforts and direct benefactions of women from the time...