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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...WILLIAM EVERETT has been requested to take charge of the first class at Adams Academy, Quincy, until the end of the present school-term, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Dr. Dimmock...
...Haven, May 11; Brown, '81, at Providence, May 22, and at Cambridge, May 24; Yale, '81, June 1. The third game with Yale will probably be at Hartford on the same day on which the University play. They will very likely play a nine from the Cambridge High School on Holmes Field to-morrow at 11 o'clock...
...reply, Mr. Sargent observes, that Harvard was in former times "to many intents a mere theological school," and was founded for the support of the profession of theology. Now that young men are trained for the other liberal professions as well, there is little propriety, he says, in the "Ecclesiae." Dr. Osgood says in his letter that he is "authorized to say that there is no purpose or wish on the part of the College to change its seal"; and Mr. Sargent pertinently remarks...
...German student, on the other hand, is hampered by no marks, no routine, no surveillance, no compulsory recitations; he is not treated like a school-boy, and hence does not behave like one. He cannot calculate what per cent he must obtain in order to scrape through. He must either leave or drop out, either succeed or fail. Hence he does not "cram" for an examination with matter which he will throw away afterward, but studies with a view to permanent results. In short, he is free to be what his own talents and energy may make him. The result...
...fatal mistake is this: an attempt has been made to graft the German elective system upon the American high-school system of marks...