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...teams were made up as follows: Harvard - Rushers, Harding, Faulkner, Butler, Smith; centre, Bartol, Mumford and Holden; quarter-back and captain, Fletcher; half-backs, Sears, Porter; full back, Boyden. Technology - Rushers, Vorce, Bartlett, Dame, Taintor; centre, Ladd, Tracy, Good-hue; quarter-back and captain, Herrick; half-backs, Wadsworth, Durfee; back, Duane. Mr. J. S. Fillmore was referee...
...main point of Prof. Ladd's argument refers to the comparative attendance at two colleges in question. The members of '85 at Harvard "'cared to stay away' only two exercises per week out of twelve, - that is, rather more than 12 per cent. of the whole." At Yale, for seven weeks of last term, the absences of '89 men amounted only to 3.7 per cent. of the entire number of recitations. Prof. Ladd adds, "A comparison of the two systems as actually at work in Harvard and in Yale shows, then, this remarkable fact. The irregularity of the average Harvard...
...fears felt as to the ultimate results of the New Education. "A tendency to self-indulgence and shallowness," "the effect upon academies and fitting schools of the country," "the effect on the higher education" and "the effect on the character of the youth," are the fears which lead Prof. Ladd to oppose the New Education...
Professor Ladd has written a strong statement of his side of the case in his controversy with Professor Palmer. The attendance at recitations, significant as it is of the use or abuse of Harvard's system, is not a criterion of the ultimate merits or defects of such a system. Professor Palmer shows that, on the whole, Harvard seniors had not abused the privilege extended to them, and thereby refuted the charge often made, that college students are not capable of governing themselves in attendance at recitations. Statistics of attendance at Harvard and Yale cannot be compared unless several facts...
...fears that Professor Ladd expresses as to the results of the New Education, to one who is not predisposed to feel them, seem groundless. Is there a greater smattering and shallowness of study under the elective than under the prescribed system? The adherants of the latter have claimed again and again that the elective system tended, not to give a man a smattering knowledge of many subjects, but to make him one-sided by leading them into specialties. The causes for the change from the old to the new, have been fears, nay even realizations, of shallowness, of knowledge gained...