Word: longer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...school training has been tolerably comprehensive. President Eliot thinks he should be prepared at the age of 18 to enter a university where the choice of studies is free. He holds that a boy has then passed the age when compulsory discipline is valuable, and he can no longer be driven to any useful exercise of his mind, and that he can select for himself a better course of study than any college faculty can possibly select...
...instances be pursued at Harvard to greater advantage than the regular course. The curriculum which is now offered to the regular students is so extensive that a college course can be made to comprehend all that any special course could include. Why then should special study any longer be offered to those who do not care or have not sufficient energy to regularly fit themselves for the college course? But if necessity and policy both require that special students should find at Harvard that elysium which has no dawn and no setting, the government of the college in every sense...
...expressed in its issue of last week. In an editorial advising the boat club to revive the class races in the fall, it spoke as if, because the faculty have prohibited inter-collegiate foot-ball, that sport was to die out from among our college games and be no longer worthy of consideration. It seems to us rather, as if next year is to be an important crisis in the history of foot-ball at Harvard. A time when it will need all the aid, instead of the discouragement, which it can get. If foot-ball can live through such...
...said to give him more trouble and hard labor than that of studying understandingly and well amid the thousand and one pleasures and distractions that surround him. Study which is such a hard task for a school boy, becomes well nigh impossible to the college student who is no longer aided and guided by the walls of his home and the close scrutiny of his parents. No work can well be done by a man who allows himself to be blown hither and thither by the wind of popularity, or who is striving after good-fellowship with his class-mates...
Considerable difficulty was experienced in getting a suitable stroke for the crew. W. B. Peet, last year's stroke was at first tried, but since last season some of the men have grown considerably and have a much longer reach than then, and it was decided that while Peet had all the other qualifications of a first-class stroke, the interests of the college would be best served by putting a man in who could set a longer stroke. B. Lockwood, Jr., one of the most useful members of 1 st year's crew, was next tried in that position...