Word: highers
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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PRESIDENT ELLIOT of Harvard denounces government aid in the matter of higher education. But when President Elliot was President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which received government aid, he did n't denounce government aid so much as he does now. Note that down! - Cornell Times...
Taking any few of them into comparison, their scales of prices are absurdly varied. Of two recent catalogues of firms with which our students have dealings, the prices of volumes of "Bohn's Library" are just one third higher in one than the other, though the lower price named is by no means cheap...
There are some important changes since last year. Students have now to obtain seventy-five per cent of the maximum mark in any elective study in order to get on the "Rank List," which is five per cent higher than has hitherto been required, - a rule which will not increase the efforts of the diligent nor disturb the indolent, but will, if it has any effect, discourage rather than encourage others...
Whoever is unfortunate enough to be put upon special probation is deprived of one third of the privileges granted others. It is not sufficient that the offending one reforms, he must even reach a standard of excellence, higher than that which is required of his associates, and this is hardly probable. We do not believe that the greater one's task is the less time it will take to perform it, or in giving to an overworked man more work in order to rest...
...quite possible for an adroit and dexterous man who has coolness, tact, and experience in examinations to assume the deceptive semblance of great erudition. It often happens that one who from much reading is acquainted with the minutiae as well as the outlines of history gets no higher mark (or perhaps not so high) than another who has confined himself to a syllabus. But granted that marks are too trivial a matter for a grave argument like this, there is another aspect of the case which is all important. When examinations are based wholly upon a syllabus, the students...