Word: learned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Query: - Are the committee of arrangements too old to learn by experience...
...intended, and that in the management of them Harvard should have first consideration, and Cambridge second. If the seats were reserved for members of the university till within a few minutes of the time for the lecture to begin, the men, women and children of Cambridge would quickly learn that it would not pay them to wait a quarter or half an hour before closed doors in order to get the best seats in the hall. Where Harvard is quite capable of crowding her lecture halls, the aid of Cambridge is certainly unnecessary. If there is room for Cambridge...
This last statement will, we hope, correct much misapprehension in regard to Harvard. Many think that if Greek is no longer to be required, it will take less study to get in here. But they forget that the man who does not learn Greek will have to pass at least as severe if not severer examinations in subjects equally hard. This process of raising the requirements must sooner or later have a very beneficial effect upon our common school system. The higher our colleges are, the better will be our academies and high schools...
Another point which Mr. Brearley leaves out of consideration is that the German students generally serve a year in the army, between their graduation from the high schools and their matriculation at a university. In this active, open air life, they learn a good bit of world-wisdom which serves them well in their general intellectual development. From all this, it must be perfectly patent to every unprejudiced mind that the German student, at nineteen or twenty years of age, is more competent to make his own selections in the matter of study than we are with our imperfect...
...Marlowe, Miss Martineau, Mill, Pepys, Percy, Richardson, Sheridan, Smollett, Stanley, Steele, Sterne, Swift, Tennyson, Thackeray, Thomson, Waller, - the list might be continued indefinitely. Every student of English literature should know something about every one of these authors. The only courses of instruction granted to us in which we can learn something about the general literature of England, (for I purposely omit all reference to American authors) are two unsatisfactory half-courses, in neither one of which is given more than twenty-eight hours of instruction during the year. These half courses, besides being wholly inadequate to the needs...