Word: one
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...such infallible proof of his work as his blue book gives him nor even a list of the questions he has been called upon to answer. To remedy this difficulty, I wish to suggest that, where it is not already so, a third party-another professor, or some one with a knowledge of the subject-should be present at examinations of this kind. I know that this system is practiced in some other colleges...
...make this suggestion that among these questions of reform I might point out one at least in which the student need not be treated as the "forgotten...
...Yale university nine contains but one senior and one junior, all the other candidates being from the sophomore and freshman classes...
...article in the Atlantic, that education in France is more effective than it is here, as is shown by the fact that a French boy is practically two years ahead of the American in the same studies. President Eliot gave two reasons for this state of affairs, one was that Americans are unwilling to put their boys to hard work and strong lists, and the other was that the French teachers are more numerous, more enthusiastic and better educated than our own. Matthew Arnold also wrote on the superiority of German and French education at the time when...
President Eliots idea, one with which many will agree, is that a tuition ought to be charged in the high and normal schools, and the money so received directed to securing better teachers and more thorough instruction. If this plan should be carried out it is thought that not only would young men be able to come to college, and go into business earlier, but that the practice of "jumping college" would be put a stop to, which means that a large proportion of our business men would receive a much fuller and more complete education...