Word: lateness
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...good colleges of Great Britain and Ireland the tendency of late years has been toward a weekly or daily supervision of studies. At Cambridge and Oxford . . . . teaching is conducted, not by loose lectures of professors, but by numerous erudite tutors . . . . who rigidly insist that pupils be present and do their work...
...over some light reading, not in his own possession, but yet so near at hand. Yet if one of the two privileges, smoking or reading, must be given up, the latter, it is much to be regretted, is the one which is usually dispensed with. It is now too late to lament the result of the vote upon this subject, for we are forced to acknowledge that it is what we ought to have expected from our own negligence, when we consider how far those who actually use the weed, and those to whom the presence of its smoke...
...eighteen to twenty-two should best be trained to self-control in freedom by letting them taste freedom and responsibility within the well-guarded enclosure of college life, while mistakes may be remedied and faults may be cured, where forgiveness is always easy, and repentance never comes too late. Whenever it appears that a college rule or method of general application is persevered in for the sake of the least promising and worthy students, there is good ground to suspect that that rule or method has been outgrown...