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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...course of study necessary to obtain a diploma in some of these is so difficult as to be simply impossible to a boy of ordinary intellect; hence, out of freshman classes of seventy, four or five boys worry through, often with broken health and exhausted energy. Now, if the object of the men who endowed these colleges was to send out yearly a few highly educated scholars, this system is the proper one; but if it was to afford a chance to the mass of young men for development and usefulness, this system completely thwarts and makes it null...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEED OF AMERICAN COLLEGES. | 6/20/1883 | See Source »

...meaning and language, and deserves careful attention from every parent. The author (who had herself won the first place in the graduating class and was therefore entitled to speak) urged that the system of placing "honors" at graduation before the pupil at her entrance into school as the chief object of her endeavors "induced a nervous strain incompatible with her highest physical or mental development. The system was not a correct index to either ability or industry; it led to superficial work, done mainly with a view to gain high marks, and the motives for study induced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEED OF AMERICAN COLLEGES. | 6/20/1883 | See Source »

...defeat because Nature did not endow them as highly as a few of their brethren. The Tribune has called the attention of colleges and teachers to this increasing and fatal error. It only echoes the opinion of parents everywhere. They see, if teachers do not, that the real object of education in American colleges should be not to elevate the reputation of this or that college or faculty, nor to train a few exceptional intellects among pupils, nor even for a time to foster high scholarship, but to develop the capabilities of every grade of students, to encourage, not stamp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEED OF AMERICAN COLLEGES. | 6/20/1883 | See Source »

...nine. Monday morning, however, we understand that a telegram was received from New Haven declaring Worcester out of the question on account of poor grounds and small gate receipts. The original agreement was, that the game was to be player in the Yale faculty did not object to the date, and as yet, we have not been told that they do object...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/13/1883 | See Source »

...questions involved in the use of "ponies" or litteral translations in the study of any language, are by no means easy to answer. With characteristic liberality, their use is often tolerated and even commended by many of the professors at Harvard. Indeed, when the object of a course is mainly literary and aims less at mere mental drill, it is difficult to see what objection can be urged to their use, and why their use does not result, on the whole, in a saving of time and labor. The traditional college training, with its strict academical customs, of course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/12/1883 | See Source »

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