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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...genus under which come the species hazing and jesting, or as any phrase or word used to denote the ridiculing of another for his faults and vices, or of turning the laugh upon him in consequence of some of his unpleasant peculiarities or blunders. That such a method of correction is deprecated by those who are ignorant of college ways, and even by some who are familiar with them, I am aware. However, if the considerations for and against such a course are weighed, a large balance, I think, will be found in favor of it. Those who are opposed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROUGHING. | 3/7/1873 | See Source »

...which may even live longer than the speech itself. That speaker contends at great odds - if, indeed, he is not effectually silenced - whose voice is drowned by uproarious laughter. All undergraduates know that roughing creates the habit of giving a ready reply; in fact, I can think of no method by which it is more successfully cultivated. Upon this ground, then, the custom which is so bitterly attacked by some is upheld. I hope it will not be inferred that I am defending any one for offering insults to another under the mere pretence that he is endeavoring to correct...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROUGHING. | 3/7/1873 | See Source »

...late, however, the system has been gradually changing. Literary Ruskins have begun to turn their attention to the education of the classic world, to revolutionize the old system of reading and enjoying works of ancient genius, to replace it by their new method of parsing and dissecting them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LITERARY RUSKINISM. | 2/21/1873 | See Source »

...filling of the mind with a multitude of facts a day or so before examination. But cramming applies also to the process of learning perfectly each part of a subject as it is presented in the daily lessons. There are very few really hard students, or else this method of cramming would be decried as much as the other. For many ideas are forced upon the memory without being understood, and whenever this is done evil surely results. My experience, which I think is not peculiar, is that it is best to neglect in great measure the recitations, till...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VOLUNTARY RECITATIONS. | 2/7/1873 | See Source »

...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. Whenever it appears that a college rule or method of general application is persevered in for the sake of the least promising and worthy students, there is good ground to suspect that that rule or method has been outgrown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESIDENT'S REPORT. | 1/24/1873 | See Source »

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