Word: mens
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...intolerably dull" - we use the Courant's words - in those parts where it differs from less pretentious periodicals. The same was true of similar magazines formerly published in Cambridge. Few read them, and they soon died. The reason is not hard to find. The thoughts of very young men are usually crude, and to every one but themselves almost worthless; besides, it is hard to find more than half a dozen interested in the same subject at once. It appears to us quite out of the question to speak to the half-dozen and neglect the hundreds. Let those...
...Medical Schools, particularly, are insufficiently endowed, and depend somewhat for their maintenance on the number of their students. Any attempt to raise the standard of the Schools diminishes the number of students; and though the class of men who are sent or kept away by this cause, as students, can well be spared, financially their loss is a serious...
...religious exercises. This enforced attendance is characteristic of American colleges, as distinguished from European universities, and was natural enough when boys went to college at fourteen or fifteen years of age. The average age of admission to Harvard College is now above eighteen, and it is conceivable that young men of eighteen to twenty-two should best be trained to self-control in freedom by letting them taste freedom and responsibility within the well-guarded enclosure of college life, while mistakes may be remedied and faults may be cured, where forgiveness is always easy, and repentance never comes too late...
...does not mean the immediate abolition of all restraints on students' time and conduct; but it is exceedingly important as being an official expression of the opinion that has been steadily gaining ground for several years past, both in college and out, that if students are to behave like men, they should be dealt with as men. There are doubts and prejudices in many minds tending to delay the desired changes in this direction, and these words will do much toward removing these obstacles...
...quite common in many of our American colleges to disparage the services of young men; advanced age and wide experience being considered essential qualifications to a good instructor. So strong is this feeling in some minds that one of our New England colleges, in a recent prospectus, holds out as an inducement to students the fact that it employs no tutors. In contrast with this notion, that young teachers are to be tolerated only because older ones are not to be had, it is interesting to read in President Eliot's Report these words...