Word: interesting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...smaller college offers educational advantages not furnished by the university.- (a) Instructors are able to take a personal interest in each student: Charles Kendall Adams, The Next Step in Education, in Forum X, 624 (February, 1891).- (b) There is greater incentive to studey.- (1) In rivalry among students.- (2) In appreciation of results attained...
Permit me as a matter of literary interest, to quote the concise French original of Mr. Roosevelt's letter...
...fact the public is beginning to feel very strongly the value of this branch of college work and to watch with great interest the intercollegiate contests. Yale realizes this, and her new Eating Club debates, and the recent defeat of Princeton warn Harvard to look to her laurels...
...inadequate, as it only for the moment cures the trouble; and radical treatment, which searches out the causes and traces them to their source. This latter is the kind of aid that is needed. More workers must be attracted; they must be instructed and trained and a more general interest in philanthropic work must be aronsed...
...subject of Professor Baker's address this evening has a serious interest for Harvard men, one which should appeal strongly to every member of the University. The repeated successes which have been won upon the platform in our contests with other colleges, though gratifying to our pride as students of Harvard may possibly have an injurious effect on the standards of ability which we set before us. Debating as it is known today has hardly passed its infancy. Our graduates of the older generation tell us of the almost total lack, in their time, of facilities for acquiring skill...