Word: iii
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...III. By an undue amount of injury to spectators. - (a) Betting; Atl. Mo., LXVI, 67-69; LXIII, 84. - (b) Professionalism. - (1) Hippodrome base ball. - (2) Hippodrome rowing matches - (c) Blackguardism. - (d) Waste of time...
...III. If the requirements for the A. B. degree are reduced to sixteen courses. - (a). The evil will be remedied better than by any other method proposed. Atl. Mo., LXVI, 163-7, Nat. LI, 107, XLIX, 425. - (b). Existing customs will not be disturbed: Harv. Mo, XIII, 114. - (c). The standard will be normal: Harv. Mo. XI, 135. - (d). More men can gain a college education: Harv. Mo. XI; 135; Atl. Mo., LXVI, 161-3. - (e). Will reduce college term to three years for those men only who need it and otherwise could not get the A. B. degree...
...III. The experience of England is against a three years course, rather than in favor - (a). At Oxford by far the largest number of men graduate in four years: Min. Rep. p. 21. - (b). At Cambridge, where the course is limited by statute to three years, most men anticipate a year's work before entrance: Ibid. - (c). The English Universities have practically abandoned what is proposed to us as an experiment...
...III. The remedy for the late age at which Harvard graduates enter professional life lies in better methods in lower schools: Prof. D. Collin Wells in Andover Rev Jan. 1892. - (a). Exeter can demand of applicants of over sixteen years of age, only "some knowledge of arithmetic, writing, spelling and grammar:" Minority Rep. p. 19. - (b). Our primary schools are not sufficiently organized, vide chart in addresses and proceeding of New E. Ass. of Colleges and Prep. Schools, Oct. 16, 1891. - (c). French and German youth pass Americans at the primary and grammar school stage: Ibid...
...III. Action should be taken immediately as - (1) It requires a long time to build ships of the modern type: Annual Encyc. 1888, p. 789; N. A. Rev. vol. 149, p. 58. - (2) To train seamen for the navy is a long process; N. A. Rev. vol. 149, p. 509. - (3) The threatening attitude of certain foreign powers may precipitate war at any time; N. A. Rev. vol. 148, p. 2; Forum vol. 6, p. 66, vol. 8, p. 317. - (4) The U. S. should be fully prepared for any unexpected events; Forum...