Word: rather
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...enables one to make a comparison with that at Harvard which we discussed at some length one week ago. The requirements for admission do not greatly differ so far as classics and mathematics go, except that Harvard presents an option between one of the ancient languages and a rather severe equivalent in physical science and a choice of modern history in place of ancient. But Harvard also requires a considerable amount of English and of physical science, which Yale does not demand at all, before the second or third year in college. All the studies of the first two years...
...compulsion have upon the several classes of persons to whom it is applied? Does it not work more harm than good? So far as members of the church are concerned the effect of compulsion may be disregarded, although it is said that even among these it tends to deaden rather than to stimulate and enliven an interest in religion. But there is good ground for a belief that compulsion tends to repel students who are not Christians and to harden their hearts...
...learning, but morally it is held to be a sink of iniquity. At Harvard College there are to-day more than a thousand students, from all parts of America, between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five. Among these are naturally a certain number of young reprobates, who rather dislike their escapades to remain unknown. As a class, these students are rich, and may be said, I believe, to come of families not yet used enough to fortune to known quite what to do with it. Generally they are good company, and they are apt to belong to the fashionable...
...instructors, and students who are personally introduced to instructors are sure of a cordial welcome. But here the matter ends. I know of hardly any instance where an offer has been neglected to improve opportunities to know students personally. I wish that I could say as much for the rather diffident youths, who, doubtless unmeaningly, have more than once failed to respond to friendly advances. What I have said, however, should be enough to show one of the reasons why I hope in time to see at Harvard a University Club that shall include both students and officers...
...clerk has in a town where he may happen to be employed. If he is introduced to people, he is sure of a hospitable reception; if not he may stay there, for years without knowing a soul whom he does not meet in a professional way. This is a rather more serious matter than it seems at first, for it involves the fact that the life of many students is passed chiefly in the society of men; and this state of things I believe to be radically unhealthy. Nothing is so good for the moral tone of a growing...