Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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The Cornell Era argues excitedly over the recent introduction of the honor system at that college. "It has been known for some time," it cries, "that certain professors were very anxious to introduce into the university a system of honors resembling closely that in vogue at Harvard. In the first...
A day or two ago at the opening exercises of the term, President McCosh, of Princeton College, took occasion to deliver a long harangue against athletic sports as at present practiced in colleges. The good doctor asserted that an undue amount of attention was paid to athletic sports as compared...
In all colleges, male colleges we will say, the press has unrestricted freedom, and through its medium the general college sentiment on all subjects, great and small, finds vent. That a college paper should have perfect freedom, provided the ones managing it are rational beings, is but right, and without...
The reforms suggested and the substitutes proposed for the method of formal examinations as a test of progress and a measure of ability, have not as yet much commended themselves to college governors. In the English Literature classes of Prof. Tyler at the University of Michigan, several years since, an...
"Then I cannot understand your request for time. You have all your life been taught to expect this. As far as concerns the young person whom I have in view, I think you can bring no rational objection. He is a thoughtful, brainful young person, well fitted to be your...