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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unless this practice of "cribbing" or anything at all approaching to it, is promptly crushed out, Harvard will be justly liable to that offensive charge. It is a well known fact that, for a time extending far back of the present or previous generation, any student guilty of this mean and criminal act in the great English universities, has not only been subject to dismissal by the authorities, but has been "dropped," or in the English phrase, "put into Coventry" by his friends. But very few cases have occurred in a very long time, but those few have afforded stern...
...point on which Dr. Hale in his letter lays most stress is that some means of moral guidance ought to be assured the student. "We grant great freedom in the choice of study. But, we do not mean to have any senior . . . . say to us that since he entered college no one ever told him that there is a difference between Right and Wrong." This is trite enough, of course. No one denies for a moment that some means of moral guidance ought to be assured. But is the only way of affording this moral guidance by means...
When Dr. Hale attempts to "put the same thing historically," he seems to forget that what was right and proper two centuries ago may be both wrong and improper to-day. Public sentiment and college sentiment once sanctioned a compulsory service; but compulsion then did not mean what compulsion means now. To-day there is no general sentiment either within or without the college which justifies a compulsory attendance at chapel. Religion has become utterly disassociated from any idea of compulsion. Prayer is held to be a matter between a man and his God, not between...
...college prayers, a single distinct religious impression being made by them. Of course, such impression may have been made. We did not see into the secret places of other hearts, nor would we say that we never personally gained any good whatever from the service. But what we do mean to say is that we recall no time when the service specially aroused religious impulses. Upper most in our recollection the college prayers stand, not for their religious or moral significance, but as a roll-call." - Cornell...
...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," that is, they prepare...