Word: proved
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...direct outcome of affectation, much of the rest from an ambition to shine as a literary light. But here and there at rare intervals we catch a glimmer, transient, it is true, of a pure, new thought, which will not be crowded out, and will in its utterance prove its own intrinsic worth. This, then, we may fairly accept as the basis of Harvard poetry. But what are the poets? Of course we have execrable rhymesters, writers who need not hope for immortality, but the grave. Although a Shelley, a Coleridge, or a Wordsworth may in his college days have...
...more than an improvement of the marking system be desired, the best plan would be to abolish all examinations and let the students mark themselves. The method, perhaps, sounds revolutionary and visionary; but it can easily be shown to be the best and simplest plan, and one which would prove perfectly feasible. The great trouble with it is that it offers no incentive to study, and in that direction would not be superior to the present state of affairs. Consequently, the real question is not to find out how we can improve our system of examinations and marks, but rather...
...would be pardonable if the writer of the article referred to was himself one of those who had never received the benefits of a college training. But it is inexplicable when it is known that he is an M. A. There are three points which it is necessary to prove before we can be made to see that college training is not beneficial - first, that the proportion of college graduates who achieve distinction is less than the proportion who achieve the distinction without the benefits of a college education; second, that in any given position a college graduate is worse...
...thinking that the course of events has already demonstrated the position assumed by Harvard as advanced and progressive? Increase in the number of students, increase in the interest manifested by the students, elevation in the character of the scholarship evolved, an enlarged scope of intelligent work, do not these prove the strength of the new movement and its value as an element in the reform of study? Would we be wise to look wistfully back upon the happy days of delusion if we can prove that it was delusion which possessed us. The work of Harvard has distinctly marked...
...that, since these courses are open to undergraduates, they must be taken in connection with the regular college work. They count either as a whole or half courses. Already complications have arisen as to the number of them that may be taken at one time. If the present courses prove successful, as we have no doubt they will, and the other departments offer similar ones, a very considerable problem looms up in the near future. Can a student elect more than one such course at one time? It seems to us eminently proper that he should be allowed...