Word: opinions
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...debonair young knight, who was ever ready to scheme for the welfare of his friends and who dearly loved a joke, carried off his part with remarkable grace and vivacity. The part of Sir Amorous La-Foole, an affected and obsequious today, who had a great opinion of the La-Foole family and of everything which belonged to them, was admirably interpreted by A. M. Hurlin '06. His mock quarrel and reconciliation with Sir John Daw, the role played by H. P. Johnson '05, was one of the best bits of farcical acting in the play. F. A. Spencer...
...free elective system is not merely an evolution, as the affirmative will maintain; it is a revolution. And against it stands the weight of opinion held by the majority of eminent educators of the day. The tendency of American colleges, beginning with the University of Indiana in 1888, and ending with Princeton in 1905, has been away from the free elective system. There is no demand or necessity for the system, which would indeed, owing to the varying conditions existing in our colleges, prove in many cases impracticable and unsatisfactory...
...traverse the whole ground. Choice must be made. Who shall make it? We are compelled to answer: Let the college man choose for himself; let him consider his own tastes, the demands of his own after life. If we deny this and seek for a consensus of educated opinion as to what the college should prescribe, we are lost in a hopeless maze. If we are to be guided by authority, the authorities must agree. An examination of the catalogues of the leading colleges in the country shows the widest diversity of opinion on this point. Where there is such...
...concluded the rebuttal for Harvard. Our opponents, he said, have jumped at the conclusion that we of the negative are arguing for a prescribed system of study. We suggest that men of broad experience in education know what is best for the undergraduate, and these men have given their opinion against free election. To show that the system of free election is not to be recommended we have pointed out that it is a revolutionary experiment in education, that the tendency in American colleges is away from free election of courses, and that the system has already worked evils...
...second part of the pamphlet contains a number of letters written by students in response to a request that they should give others the benefit of their experience. Many letters express the opinion that it is better for a man to work a year before entering college rather than to come here without resources, but nearly all agree that after a year spent in college a man should be capable of earning enough to meet all necessary expenses...