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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...grade given first in the Catalogue, two others were conditioned, and a seventh failed to pass. No alternative but success or perfect failure was contemplated; but two of the applicants did so well that it seemed unfair to let all their work go for nothing, and they can obtain the certificate by passing, next year, those examinations in which they failed. Two or three of the ladies who succeeded will probably try for further honors next year. There is a question whether the names of those who succeeded in the examinations shall be printed in the Catalogue. Why should they...
...classification of pleasurable and painful feeling," he misrepresents men in many of their actions. Not to value human nature too highly, we can at least lay claim to some better motives than these. We should be unwilling to believe that all actions are induced by the wish to obtain pleasure or to get rid of pain, and that a feeling of right or duty was never considered in men's actions. There is in every man's nature something which calls for higher springs of action and exerts a more powerful influence than mere pleasure or pain; and to account...
...cause, absent from such an examination, the subject of that examination will stand against him as a condition, to be removed in the usual way by performing the corresponding work in some subsequent year. A student, however, whose absence from examination is excused, may, if he prefer, obtain a special examination; but the maximum mark at any such special examination will be only sixty per cent of the maximum mark of the examination for which it is substituted...
Some people wish to have Harvard changed into an institution to which men may come as for a matter of business, to obtain instruction on one subject or another, staying and going at their own sweet wills, and paying accordingly. If the Elective System or any other influence should ever bring it about that all which Harvard graduates have in common is a date of the reception of a degree, and perhaps not even that, then Class-Day must die as a matter of course; but until that unhappy day comes, let us do anything in our power to preserve...
...course of study is divided into eight or nine classes, each one of which demands a year's work. Accordingly, a child who begins his studies at eight years of age ought, at the age of seventeen (supposing he neither loses nor gains time), to be able to obtain his degree of bachelor. In the second or third class Latin grammar is begun, translations and themes are required, and sacred history is studied. During the fourth, fifth, and sixth, Greek is added; then Greek and Roman history. At the end of the sixth year the student is in condition...