Word: presentism
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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OFFICERS of the several College Societies for the present half-year...
Those who at present are busy over the Constitution of the United States will find it greatly to their advantage to consult the former of these essays, for many interesting questions are there started. "Is it the violation of any law laid down in the Constitution, is it an element of Insurrection or of Invasion, for a man to place in the ballot-box a vote for whatever candidate he may choose?" Also, "If the militia is called into active service by the President, without the authority of Congress, is this anything but the assumption of Imperial power?" Unfortunately...
...have got almost to manhood, the slacker the government has been, the more marked the success. It is also to be noticed - and Dr. McCosh is unfair in not noticing - that the two serious objections offered to the plan of voluntary recitations apply also with great force to the present system. It is indeed true that great numbers of men enter college without any appreciation of study; but it is also true that great numbers leave college in the same condition. So, too, even now, cramming is very prevalent. Both these evils are unavoidable in a large college...
...students to plan for themselves. This will have the same good effect in college that it has in the outside world, where men who find their judgment a safe guide in some things are likely to trust to it in others rather than to public opinion. College, at present, by no means causes such independence of thought as one would naturally expect...
There will be an opportunity for continuous application to one subject, and for a deeper interest than usual, which shall lead men to thorough investigation. At present this is impossible, when all the time is divided among eight or ten different studies, no one of which is looked at oftener than three times a week...