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...gain high marks, and the motives for study induced by it are unworthy ones." It is not Vassar College alone to which this protest is applicable; it might be urged in almost every public and private school in the country. There is hardly a thoughtful parent who does not know that the object set before his boy and girl at school is, not the gradual healthy development of their mental power and ability for usefulness, but a certain number of marks, a high place in their class, some paltry distinction on graduating day. Pupils thus fail to perceive how utterly...
...First - We believe that the nervous strain imposed by the present honor system upon a large number of the students is incompatible with their highest physical and mental development. We know, many of us by experience, that from the freshman year the desire not to disappoint the hopes of parents and friends in this particular leads to worse than useless worry and anxiety, and interferes seriously with that quiet of nerve and mind essential to the best mental work...
...whom I had selected as critics, and I have spent the last two weeks in endeavoring vainly to obtain verses. Finally, in defiance of form, and against my inclination, I have been obliged to scribble something myself, which will have to do in default of better. Now that I know how difficult it is to get words, I wish the music had been published earlier, but I have confidence in the musical ability of our class and I think that the rehearsals which we shall have next week will equal in number, and very likely surpass in effect, the rehearsals...
...ideal professor of their own construction, asking him how much salary he needed, and paying all the others accordingly. What the ideal professor always says is that the merest trifle is enough for him and his family; that they are, in fact, so absorbed in study that they hardly know what they eat or wear, and that they would be ashamed of themselves if they needed much money. The actual professor is, however, a totally different person. He is mostly a modern American, fond of books and teaching, and study it may be, but also fond of such...
...appointment of Mr. Leslie Stephen to the chair of English literature at Cambridge leaves little room for anything but congratulation. The Clark professorship is the first, and, so far as we know, the only endowment for the study of English at either of the older universities. There are chairs of Anglo-Saxon, certainly; but the connection between Anglo-Saxon and modern English literature is not very close, and our Anglo-Saxon scholars, for the most part, have very rightly devoted themselves to comparative philology rather than to literary criticism. In Mr. Stephen Cambridge has secured as a professor...