Word: path
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...somewhat different way from one who was to enter the preparatory schools and colleges. It is a prime necessity that the professors in colleges and the principals of preparatory schools should understand each other before they can be able to secure co-operation. There are many difficulties in the path of the preparatory school teacher. He is seldom willing to confine himself exclusively to the drudgery and drill work which the college expects. He is desirous to broaden the understanding of his pupil by cultivating his literary tastes, and sometimes is tempted to neglect the drill work in his efforts...
...casual visitor to Jarvis Field sometimes wonders at a group of men on the southern end of the field, who, with their legs guarded by curious pads, stand in front of three upright stakes at the end of a smooth gravel path, and bat the balls thrown at them by the bowler. This is the cricket eleven practising...
...marsh below Appleton Chapel, and the pond at the end of the walk on Harvard Street, just opposite Holyoke St. On every moist day, on each side of the walk leading from the Chapel to Memorial, two large pools of water are formed which gradually rise and overflow the path; then our generous authorities send a couple of stalwart Irishmen who dig a small trench across the path, drawing the small puddle into the larger, and making the walk in the meanwhile a regular quicksand. The end of the walk opposite Holyoke St. is still worse; the stones are sunken...
Under the circumstances the task set is a hard one. To lead, as gently as is consistent with firmness, the mistaken elders along a path which is difficult to their unaccustomed feet, to repeat again and again with kind insistence the doctrines which are so easy to the more enlightened mind, never forgetting that consideration which is due to a blood relation,-this is a duty calling into play all the self-assurance and confident superiority which even a careful training of four years can bestow...
...former entrance requirements would be, in substance, retained in combination (b), but with some important modifications, which may be briefly summoned up by saying that the amount of Latin to be read would be diminished, while the Greek and Latin composition which has been a lion in the path to so many generations of freshmen, might be altogether avoided. The French, German, and English work would also be somewhat increased in difficulty. In fact, one of the objects sought in the proposed change is the improvement of the work in English, both preparatory to, and after entering college This improvement...