Word: matter
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...books, - a habit which will induce him to pay more attention to his library and to literature generally than among the cares of after life he otherwise would. To buy books one at a time as we want to read them, aside from the pleasure it gives, is a matter to be considered by those who desire to save expense, since valuable and rare books can often be purchased for a comparative trifle at the nooks of second-hand booksellers. Old Cornhill will still yield many a harvest, yellow with age, to one who gleans closely...
...odious practice must have vanished wholly from the land. Yet probably never, during the existence of the College, has cramming ever been required more absolutely than at two examinations in metaphysics which have lately been given the Junior class. These examinations have been an hour in length, and the matter required has been an abstract of the portion of the book gone over previous to the examination. Now there is a way of looking at this plan so that it will appear a good one, but such a point of view is one which only one of the most ardent...
...discrimination as to what shall be taken out of extra pages, it seems to me the only method of accomplishing in any measure what is required. These examinations demand cramming, and little else, and as such, they are grossly inconsistent with the avowed opinions of all instructors on this matter. The plan does not differ much from giving out the questions of an ordinary examination a day or two previous. The examinations amount to so little as showing the real knowledge of those examined, that, although a good deal of time is uselessly spent in preparation for them, it would...
...entirely unknown. It is asserted that, by the English system, all inclination for original research is not only not fostered, but is even repressed. If these objections to the Cambridge and Oxford methods are really well founded (and an American can hardly profess to be a judge of the matter except with regard to the comparison between English and German scholarship), any changes founded upon them should be regarded with anything but a friendly eye; and especially should they be thus regarded, since the Englishmen, who as a rule are never prone to decry their own institutions, have attacked...
...source of honor to be able to produce eminent scholars in mathematics, in languages, and in science, it should be a matter of greater pride to send out men thoroughly educated in the means of legislating and governing wisely. A complete course in college for training men to be useful and honest statesmen is what Mr. Adams thought most needful to be added to the present courses of instruction...