Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...work? In a word, this note-taking, if I may be permitted the expression, is the wholesale industry of the college, and with this fact in view, I do not think any single addition to the present curriculum of electives would so materially increase the average standard of scholarship as the addition of a course in short-hand writing. Not only would any proficiency in the subject be very gratifying to the student as an undergraduate, but it must also be a very considerable accomplishment to have away from college...
...undue precipitancy was thereby avoided. Improvement, however, had been made slowly but surely. Harvard was encouraging the students to do things for themselves, and as a result they had already organized and successfully managed Memorial Hall and the Co-operative. He also asserted that a good spirit of scholarship could not exist except as the results of free will and intellectual ambitions. The best discipline, he stated, was that of responsibility. The university is to train men, in whom personal independence of thought is of primary importance. In no field does college education tell more than in the field...
...system was unceasingly agitated. In 1839 the required classical work was restricted to the freshman class. This was a great advance, and from this time on the system grew more rapidly into favor. In 1841 it was officially announced that the new system of election had greatly improved the scholarship of the students, and additional privileges were allowed. President Sparks was a determined opponent of the elective system, and energetically opposed it. Curtailments in the choice of elective courses followed. Shortly after, a reaction set in, and in 1866 the advance toward free election was inaugurated anew, and has culminated...
...will be seen by the results of the several votes taken during the debate that the sentiment of the students was quite decidedly in favor of the innovation, but that the arguments were much stronger on the side of the classicists. The scholarship of the college was well represented among the speakers by the men who hold the first rank in the senior, junior and sophomore classes, two of these speaking in favor of, and one against the alterations in admission requirements. The speakers were nearly equally divided among the several classes, eighty-seven predominating for the first time this...
President Seelye, of Amherst, is quoted as saying that every man who writes for his college paper lowers his scholarship...