Word: selectness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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DEAR HOSEA, - Here I am, in this Queen City of New England, and boarding in one of the most select parts of Boston (the South End), with a most affable lady, of means and refinement, whose name is Smith...
...often this is done! How many men are there who choose their studies for the Sophomore year without the slightest thought of what they are going to take in the Junior year, and continue their plan by choosing their Junior studies without regard to those that they will select for their Senior year. Hence it is that we find men taking Classics as Sophomores, Modern Languages as Juniors, and finishing with Natural Science when Seniors. The remedy is simple. At the end of the Freshman year, the student, instead of sending in a list of electives for the Sophomore year...
...atmosphere and aid the class in establishing suitable habits of analysis. A special lecture-room edition of the work to be expounded should be prepared by interleaving the great ethnic novel romance with pages from Herbert Spencer and Gall and Spurzheim, and from other works, as the professor might select. I believe that if the thing is to be done at all, it ought to be done thoroughly. Moreover, the chair should be a movable one, like those connected with Cornell, which are frequently found situated in parlor cars en route from New York and Boston to Ithaca. - The Contributor...
...HAVE always believed that one of the most important advantages arising from that palladium of our college liberties, the elective system, was that we should be allowed to select the direction in which to grow wise. I fondly believed that after our Freshman year we were supposed to know what we wanted to learn, and that the learned professor would do his best to give us instruction in that subject and that subject only. For instance, I imagined that when a man took our Fine Arts elective he was supposed to be consumed with a burning desire for useful knowledge...
Much was hoped for from the club crews in the way of bringing to notice and training a supply of oarsmen from which to select candidates for the University, and on this subject much has been written; but, strangely enough, the most vital point has been entirely neglected, viz. the proper coaching of the men in the club crews. They have been taught to row in such bad form and on such wrong principles that, on becoming candidates for the University, they are actually at a disadvantage when compared with the tyros. To obviate this, the captain of the University...