Word: matter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...much misapprehension relative to the average ages for entering a university in America and Germany. Many people seem to think that the average is much higher there than here, and that the matureness of the German students is rather attributable to that fact. But the truth of the matter is, that the mean age in Germany is hardly a year above that for entering such colleges as Harvard, Yale, and Columbia. It is in the schools, in the school training therefore, that the great difference lies. Our schools, in the majority of cases, undertake to "prepare a man for college...
...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 and uneven intellectual training here in America...
...library for reference, a custom that of late has been greatly neglected. We have no need to expatiate on the value of these papers to men preparing for examinations. We will only say that we think that the members of the faculty, or those who have had the matter in charge, by taking more care in future to see that papers are put in the library, will do no slight favor to students of the college. We hope that every one of the recent examinations will be represented on the library shelves...
...should like to have, from as many as are interested, communications about this matter...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Your editorial of yesterday did justice to the merits of the English department. But, as I understand the matter, the strictures, made lately on that department, have been not on the increased opportunities and requirements in English composition, but on the lack of opportunity afforded for the study of English literature in general. The department is strong in its Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton and Bacon courses, and in Anglo-Saxon and early English; but for the study of the mass of literature since the time of Chaucer, with the exception of the masters whom I have mentioned...