Word: parts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...literary tastes, and sometimes is tempted to neglect the drill work in his efforts to open a wider mental horison for his pupil. Thus, there grows up a want of harmony between the college professor and the fitting school instructor which can be cured only by efforts on the part of both for natural confidence and helpfulness. The fitting school teacher really has the greater task, for he has to deal with the pupil when in the freshness of his youth and the ardor of his hope, and it is the impressions made at this period of life which...
...election of delegates to the Conference Committee on Friday last resulted in the choice of men whom we believe to be thoroughly representative of the main body of students. No society, no interest predominates. Among the delegates are men who have taken part in the various athletic sports, rowing, base-ball, foot-ball, and in the contests of the track and the gymnasium. Other interests are by no means neglected. The scholarship of the college is well represented by the three scholars of highest rank in the several classes. Then to the great mass, of students who are neither athletic...
...student is admitted to College with conditions, such conditions will stand against him, unless for special excellence of scholarship during part or all of his first college year, the Faculty, on recommendation of the class instructors, cancel them. All such conditions not so canceled will be treated like conditions on college studies in accordance with the provisions of Rule...
...effect with a large class of students would not be, in fact already is, to give to their education a degree of extension quite out of proportion to its intention - an effect was very reverse of what the method is claimed to produce; and whether the expenditures on the part of our colleges and universities in supplying the requisite number of professors for an all-elective system would not be entirely in excess of the value of the services that could be rendered, and of the benefits that could be conferred...
...modern education. The words of such a pronounced classicist deserve the closest consideration. While the great devine does not take such decided ground as his celebrated countryman, chief Justice Coleridge, he still declares himself in favor of the continuance of the study of Greek and Latin as a component part of a college course. He said in a lecture before the students of Johns Hopkins University: "We are the children, after all, of the past, and a comprehension of the laws of nature must not exclude the laws of man, who is a part of nature. The past lives...