Word: objections
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...current number of the Advocate irresistibly suggests a conundrum asking the reason for its likeness to the Collection of Western Art in the Boston Museum. The answer is obvious; each contains one work of marked excellence relieved against productions of more or less ordinary merit. The extraordinary object in the Boston Museum is the Greek throne; the thing of distinction in the Advocate is Mr. Alken's poem...
...prime object of a college education is commonly said to be the development of the ability to think logically and constructively. If this be true, examinations which call for something more than mere extensive knowledge of isolated facts are a far truer basis for grading students than are memory tests...
...quote a passage from an article, written by a Harvard undergraduate, that appeared in last Saturday's Boston Transcript, the object of which apparently was to maliciously criticise all dramatic institutions in Cambridge...
...Harvard club of Chicago has appointed a permanent Entertainment committee to meet men from the University when they arrive in that city for the first time. The object of this committee is to see that the newcomer has opportunities to meet Harvard men in Chicago and to alleviate as much as possible the sensation of strangeness which is felt by a young graduate coming in search of a position, to an unknown city for the first time. The club wishes that the undergraduates should know of the existence of this committee, so if later they decide to go to Chicago...
...deemed to be so by the University itself, it is idle to expect the students or the public to value them highly, or to hope that undergraduates will have any great ambition to excel in their College work. If we are to succeed in making scholarship in College an object of ambition, we must lay stress not exclusively upon the degree, but also upon the grade with which that degree is taken, and upon literary and other prizes that are won. In short, we must fix the attention of the student not upon minimum requirements, but upon the highest grade...