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...different courses and subjects to meet the restless needs of the time, the appearance of vast and expensive educational "plant," the semi-industrialization of athletics, the development of great endowment funds and the necessity for endowment "drives" to maintain and expand them, and, finally, the replacement of the nineteenth-century college president by the business executive competent to care for these elaborate and pressing interests--all this has the appearance of a natural process, as unconscious and as difficult to control as such processes usually...
...will find it useful for a great deal more than an understanding of foreign relations along. A better knowledge of all British lectures which give in turn something of the drama, humor, and thought which went into the external relations of the greatest empire in the world during the nineteenth century...
...such a flood of new facts came pouring in that it seemed for a time as though this fact catching could never lose its novelty. One great deep-sea expedition led to another and more was learned about the sea during the last thirty years of the nineteenth century than had been during the preceding three thousand...
Almost every school or college has some sort of "honor system." In some it is a living thing which the students cherish and preserve by strict self-discipline. In many, however, it is an outworn symbol of the "romantic" period of the late nineteenth century, greatly stressed by headmasters in their talks to parents and alumni, and largely a joke among those who are presumed to practice and revere it. Recently a good many institutions have seen fit to abandon the scheme, confessing that modern youth is too matter-of-fact, if not too cynical, to be persuaded...
Disciplining of Dartmouth students was a serious problem in the first half of the nineteenth century...