Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...study, and each student of the other classes four. Thus out of the 220 courses offered, the student may do his whole four years' work in about twenty, and cannot profitably extend it over many more than that number. So while election becomes a necessity, choice becomes a matter of very great importance. The restrictions laid down for the direction of the student are few and the suggestions for his guidance still fewer. He is limited in making his choice to "those studies which his previous training qualifies him to pursue," but it does not appear that any systematic method...
...acquired of their mental characteristics. What with the power of self-direction that the older and more earnest-minded students will have, the guidance of parents and teachers, the restrictions and suggestions of the college authorities, and the presumed readiness of college instructors to give personal advice in the matter, it may seem as though the chance of going astray were pretty well limited to the heedless, the capricious, and the wrong-headed, who can hardly be induced by any means to go right. But really there are many well meaning fellows of sixteen to twenty-four who, with...
...possibility of such customs might be obviated by forethought upon leaving home, as but few would be unable to procure proper introductions of such a character as would at least do away with the necessity of seeking questionable amusements. We have received more than one communication upon this matter and therefore feel justified in speaking of it at this length. Many men are too apt to underrate the invaluable aid to young men of proper social relations during collegiate life. We thus account for the evolution of the anomalous "grind," whose ideas self-centred, soon warp him into a something...
...college and the consequently great expense of any formal entertainments prevents these relations from generally becoming more than professional. A few exceptionally good scholars find warm and sympathetic friends in their instructors, and students who are personally introduced to instructors are sure of a cordial welcome. But here the matter ends. I know of hardly any instance where an offer has been neglected to improve opportunities to know students personally. I wish that I could say as much for the rather diffident youths, who, doubtless unmeaningly, have more than once failed to respond to friendly advances. What I have said...
...town where he may happen to be employed. If he is introduced to people, he is sure of a hospitable reception; if not he may stay there, for years without knowing a soul whom he does not meet in a professional way. This is a rather more serious matter than it seems at first, for it involves the fact that the life of many students is passed chiefly in the society of men; and this state of things I believe to be radically unhealthy. Nothing is so good for the moral tone of a growing man as knowing - and knowing...