Word: presentism
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...essay on the "Influence and Education of Woman" is especially interesting at present. At the time of its publication he had much stronger public prejudice to combat than exists now. In speaking of the influence of woman, he says: "We do not wish to increase that influence, but to direct it to loftier and more salutary purposes." This, it seems to me, is the true spirit in which to undertake reform in woman's condition...
...from the University, because to what seemed to him a rude remark from an officer of government he made a rude reply. But when it happens that the charges against a man do not appear to be substantiated, then it is that the undergraduates are given to discussing the present system of penalties. There will probably no one be found who thinks that a man, even if caught in disorderly conduct at one end of the yard, should be held responsible for like occurrences at the other end, merely because they happened the same evening. No officer, when he detects...
...review of President Eliot's Report in our last issue, we gave an extract showing his opinion of the present system of compulsory attendance on recitations. We give below an abstract of an article written by Dr. McCosh of Princeton College, maintaining the opposite view...
...good colleges of Great Britain and Ireland the tendency of late years has been toward a weekly or daily supervision of studies. At Cambridge and Oxford . . . . teaching is conducted, not by loose lectures of professors, but by numerous erudite tutors . . . . who rigidly insist that pupils be present and do their work...
...three years some reasons for the poor play of particular members have been given and received as sufficient, but the most obvious reasons have been a want of practice in playing strange clubs, and a lack of feeling of any responsibility on the part of the Class. Should the present negotiations prove successful, the first reason will be entirely removed. The second can only be removed by a change in feeling throughout the Class and the College generally, and, though this cannot be done in a moment, an exhibition of pluck and a determination to win, like the present, will...