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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which they disapprove, in a way of which we have now hardly a foretaste. Public opinion in Harvard College is to-day omnipotent in matters of outward form, dress, manners, language, etc. But I think no one will deny that it is shame-faced and cowardly and too often unwilling to raise its voice where deeper matters are concerned. This passivity of public opinion here is the great obstacle to investing our students with power, and one of the most damaging things to the college in the eyes of the outer world. But any tone can be changed...
Another plan, seemingly rash, is often used, and by its very daring is frequently successful. Writing paper, such as is used in the examinations, is procured, and two or three sheets are closely covered with formulae or whatever else is likely to prove useful. When the time comes for the "cribber" to enter the examination room he places the sheets under his tightly-but-toned coat, walks boldly into the lions' den, seats himself at his table, and hastens to write a page or two of something or other. Just what it is doesn't matter. The main object...
...some compensation; but this is so far from being the case that the instructors of English in American colleges have to spend much of their time and strength in teaching the A B C of their mother tongue to young men of 20-work disagreeable in itself, and often barren of result. Every year Harvard graduates a certain number of men-some of them high scholars-whose manuscript would disgrace a boy of 12; and yet the college cannot be blamed, for she can hardly be expected to conduct an infant school for adults...
...informal meetings of instructors and instructed, is always beneficial and helpful to all concerned. To the instructors it gives a wider knowledge of their pupils that assists them in their teaching, and at the same time increases their interest in the work and the workers, or, as is very often the case, adds an interest where no interest had before existed. The students, on the other hand, have to profit from all their closer relations with those above them in knowledge, experience, and consequent wisdom; and by conversing informally with those same superiors, to learn to look upon them...
...easily defeated by our team, found no difficulty in winning the game at Hanover yesterday. Yet, in spite of the strong probabilities of success, all over confidence must be suppressed, for, of all games, base-ball is one the most uncertain, as has been shown only too often by the unexpected victories of a weak team over one reputed to be of much greater strength. No better example of this could be asked than the result of the Brown game at Providence last year, when we lost not only the game but the championship. The narrow escape from defeat which...