Word: life
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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DEAR JIM, - As you were kind enough to ask me in your last letter for some account of my life here, I will give it to you, with a fair warning that you brought it on yourself...
SEEK ye a simile? Why, life is like...
...human life and actions turn to ashes...
...college course was adhered to, an average mark may have been regarded as some evidence of conscientious work, more or less reliable as a criterion of scholarship. But under the elective system, which encourages special studies in the course marked out by the student for his career in life, he should receive from the college a proper recognition of his actual standing in those special branches of study, or else the present plan of determining college rank by an average mark ought to be entirely abolished, and a final examination for a degree substituted, as in the German universities...
...speak of it. Not only is the average system often unjust, but it is calculated, in the case of those students who strive only for marks, to work serious evil. The only way to avoid this result is courageously to sacrifice college rank to more solid advantages in after life...