Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...desired effect. Not only has no head to the department been appointed, but the methods of one instructor in particular have established no attempts at improvement. The instructor in question, day after day, ignores completely the presence of half the men in his sections; in fact, to make the matter worse, often calling upon the more fortunate students twice or more times in the course of a recitation. This is common talk among the men of the freshman class, and it is surprising that dissatisfaction has not made its appearance in your columns ere this...
From my seat in this college I am asked by experienced fathers, men of business, to try to determine whether a youth of eighteen shall be directed to take a course of ancient or modern languages. And I do think that I overstate the matter when I say that over sixty per cent. of the parents and nearly all of the students are utterly unable to determine for what profession the youth is best fitted...
...this matter of elective studies I stand midway between the two extremes as represented by Dr. McCosh and President Eliot. I cannot indorse the elective system as President Eliot expounds and defends it, for his position seems to me open to many of the objections which Dr. McCosh urged at the recent meeting of the Nineteenth Century Club. For instance, it is true that under a system of complete election, a student may get a degree for the study of music, the French drama similar dilettante branches, although it is, perhaps, true that a student who pursues this course would...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- Though the arrangements in the college library have reached such a state of perfection, that it is not frequent that any complaint can be found with them, still I think that there is one matter which might be improved upon. This is in regard to the new books. By the present arrangements, a new book can be out, and kept out for the regular time of four weeks; yet, I think, there is a much greater demand for new books, than for any other. Now it seems to me that the arrangement which, I am given...
...understand it, this new departure in the matter of prizes is intended to supply a long felt want, by instituting a series of "scholarships" in athletics, very much as we have a system of scholarships for literary excellence. To explain: let us suppose that a man comes to Cornell with but a meagre allowance of cash, and mental abilities, but with a plentiful endowment of muscle. It is tolerably obvious that, under the old-time order of things, his progress to knowledge will be beset with difficulties of a financial nature. But under the new system no such hindrance exists...