Word: often
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...often that we have occasion to reply to such effrontery as appears in the current Brunonian. The following is taken from an editorial: "There has of late been a good deal of discussion as to what should be compulsory, and what elective, in a college. As a result, some institutions have drawn the reins even tighter than before, while others, notably Harvard, will confer a degree upon almost any person who enrolls his name upon the college books, and dwells for four years within the sacred precincts of learning...
...prominent instructors has initiated the practice of writing criticisms in the examination books on the methods pursued in writing the examination papers. The value of this practice is very great. The knowing how to write a paper is often quite as important as the knowing what to write, so that criticisms on methods become extremely valuable. The number of men who need these criticisms is probably large; for, after almost every examination, it becomes evident by the marks that many of the men best prepared in the subject of the examination do not necessarily take the highest places. The weight...
...customary for Yale apologists to put forward many excuses for the college, which allege lack, not only of funds, but of any spirit among alumni that comes, forward to ease the pecuniary path of their alma mater. But the graduates have never been asked to give: they are more often treated as interlopers in college affairs than persons whose support or backing is desirable. Yale men who will take the trouble to read Mr. Henry C. Kingsley's contribution to the November number of the New Englander and Yale Review, can easily learn the disposition of the "powers that...
...give elsewhere that very threadbare argument about small colleges. President Anderson, of Rochester University, which is almost unknown, says that Harvard cannot keep as good a corps of instructors as they have at Rochester. Such statements are always very interesting, and often amusing. Rochester proudly says, "We have no tutors; all are professors." The inference is that the Rochester men get better instruction than we do. But they forget that a man is no better simply because you chose to call him "professor." If the Rochester "professors" are not above the ordinary Harvard tutor in education and ability, what...
...office. Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and Dr. Eliot, President of the university, spoke to the same effect. Dr. Eliot related with pardonable pride that at a recent dinner of old Harvard men a prominent young advocate had declared that, when he was a student, he had often heard it said that the course at Harvard was equal to ten years' actual work; that he was then incredulous, but that after being in practice for ten years he came to know it as a fact...