Word: schoolboys
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Musset of eighteen, proud and impertinent, was the author of his "Contes d'Espagne et d'Italie," published in 1830. But he was only an untrained schoolboy when he wrote his "Cantique Romantique...
...really seems as if in our desire to leave the schoolboy far behind, and to realize as quickly as possible the "Harvard spirit of dignity and conservatism," we have been led into an extreme and false idea of our part as men; as if in straining to show ourselves men of the world we had arrived at a standard of false formality and "priggishness" which the world will not tolerate when it receives us after graduation. "By all means maintain the Harvard spirit of dignity and conservatism, but do not over...
...system, by which each man has fitted his studies to his needs, the University has come nearer to it. To one who knows Harvard there is something almost ludicrous, were it not for the sorrowful thought that the University is so misunderstood, in the cry of Harvard indifference. Because schoolboy ideals and codes are fast disappearing, because men will not be driven in a body, because a man thinks that above all he should seek to make the best use of those powers which God has given him, Harvard is indifferent. If this be indifference the charge is true...
...himself.- (c) It increases the student's self-reliance and self-respect: Educational Review, VII, 26, 325; Graduates' Magazine, II, 468; Harvard Monthly, XV, 93; Four American Universities, 17 fg.- (1) It throws him upon his own resources.- (2) He is treated as a man and not as a schoolboy.- (d) The accompanying lack of enthusiasm is but a cover for a maturity and balance: Educational Review, VII, 325.- (1) The apparent coldness comes from a mental perspective and a sense of what is ideally best.- (e) It teaches him to look upon himself not as a part...
Although I heartily endorse the sentiments of your previous correspondents concerning English C, I wish to protest against the childish attitude of a certain part of the 12 o'clock section, which savors strongly of a schoolboy thoughtlessness, and is in no way becoming to members of the junior class at Harvard...