Word: realing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...professor in the University of Cambridge, C. L. Hodgson, is the real author of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...
...statistics can show the actual advance in real scholarship under the new system over the old. But all acquainted with the results testify to this advance. The spirit of Harvard students has changed from the school-boy spirit to the scholarly spirit. This is fast coming true in conduct as in work. "Indeed, one sometimes becomes apprehensive lest the sense of humor may be dying out at Harvard," says Mr. Hale rather extravagantly, "and it is with something like a feeling of relief that one reads of such a bit of mischief as that recent one (conducted, it seems...
...True, if a club could be established which would confine itself principally to cruises, and make races a minor consideration; it would certainly be a desirable thing. The bicycle club can be cited as one Harvard organization at least which is not a mere racing committee. But how much real vitality has the bicycle club at present? I know it is useless for me to harp upon this universal tendency at all our colleges to turn all possible sports to the interests of contests of some sort or other; and to speak of the impossibility of sustaining any interest among...
...traditions of the Hasty Pudding." Furthermore, the expenses of the club would thereby be so much increased as to preclude many from membership, and injury would result from "exaggerating the importance of purely club interests, and thus promoting the tendency, at all times strong among undergraduates, to subordinate the real interests and objects of their college life to social pleasures and trivial occupations...
...complained in England that the universities themselves have long since abdicated their teaching functions. Most of the real teaching, it is said, is provided by the unauthorized and outside system of private tutors, who exist independently of the colleges, and have, in a great degree, superseded them. In too many cases the candidate for an ordinary degree, if he wish to pass, is compelled to make use of a private tutor. His college does, indeed, provide him with a certain number of lectures, but the number is usually quite inadequate, and even if it were greater in several instances...