Word: likes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...present scheme for a young man to have the most costly education that this country affords him, and to be totally and absolutely ignorant of English literature, and to be unable to write English decently. As to the conditions of life, the questions of political economy and the like, which are of absolute importance to any one who wants to understand the social world in which he is living, there is not the slightest need that he should ever have mastered the rudiments of them...
...step to any real reform of studies is the abolition of verse-making, except as an extra in the higher forms. Greek, too, as a compulsory subject is doomed, and all the head masters in England cannot save it. This, we know, is a debatable question, and we should like to argue it out, but here we must be content to dogmatic...
Leaving aside all questions of right or wrong, we should like to ask what necessity there is for the crew to have striped blazers, what necessity there is of taxing the students unnecessarily. The crew are provided with rowing uniforms in profusion, and no complaint is made. But why should $150.00 be spent in buying them a loafing shore uniform. Such is the price which blazers, caps, and white trousers cost. They are not worn nor needed by the men while in Cambridge. To provide them with such luxuries for a three week's stay in a secluded cabin...
...would like to call attention, editorially, to a communication which recently appeared in our columns in regard to the "new books." Under the present arrangements, new books can be kept out for the regular period of four weeks, just as is the case with old books. It is obvious, however, that in the great majority of cases, new books are in a much greater demand than old books, and that the same rules should govern the distribution of both is manifestly unfair. In a number of public libraries where books are kept out regularly two weeks, all new books must...
...study of the special question of election in studies in colleges, differ as widely as do President Eliot and President McCosh, how can a poor, green youth of eighteen, without any knowledge whatsover of the nature and advantage of studies between which he is told to choose, make anything like a selection...