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...studies, and most of our courses, can properly be tested only in part, - and that often a very small part, - by means of written examinations. For instance, one of the extreme follies of the present system can be seen in our examination papers on Elocution; for this subject, it need hardly be said, should be tested by declamations and readings. And so with many other subjects. In each case the tests should represent the work, should be a part of the work of the course itself. The number and delicacy of experiments, in Experimental Physics or Chemistry; the accuracy...
...have, for men resist the influences to which they are exposed with very different results. Another subject of the very greatest importance to health is food. Exercise for persons of sedentary habits is of prime importance. Cleanliness and sleep are too well known as requirements of good health to need much comment. We want to make ourselves sound in wind and limb, in heart and brain. We are all glad to be freed from aches or pains; how much better if we avoid some portion of them. The desire to avoid pain is one of our first acquisitions...
...There is need of fresh sponges in the bowling alleys...
...Columbia Spectator says of the Harvard Conference Committee: "The experiment will be watched with a great deal of interest by the college world, any arrangement which exhibits such confidence in the students, and places such privileges in their hands, ought to succeed. The need of co-operation and a better understanding between faculty and students has long been felt in our colleges, and this new scheme certainly appears to supply the desideratum. May the perfect success of the new departure reward Harvard's progressive spirit, and the consideration which she shows her students by imposing such responsibilities upon them...
...pleaded for, and sometimes with skill and enthusiasm, and by men eminently qualified to speak of the subject; as by President White, of Cornell, before the National Educational Association in 1874. But the plan, I fear, will never be successfully carried out before another thing is done. What we need as yet is not so much the university as the student. There is still almost wholly wanting among us that higher ambition in our young men which is necessary in order that a university may live and thrive. We need the ambition that would go beyond the studies required...