Word: shared
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...large section is a most disagreeable feature in several courses, but any unfairness or carelessness merely adds to this, without mitigating it in the slightest. So long, then, as we are compelled to put up with it, we trust that every man will do his share towards making the burdens as light as possible...
...inaugural dinner of the Bristol University College Club, a few weeks ago, Sir John Lubbock made a most interesting speech on the subject of a higher education. He claimed that the sciences and modern languages did not receive their full share of attention as statistics showed. In the course of his remarks he expressed the following views on the warfare now going on between the classics and the sciences: Five-and-twenty years ago, when the hours of study were fewer and the examinations less numerous, a boy had far greater opportunity of following up any special task than...
...undervalue and would not neglect the classics. All he asked was that science and modern languages should have their fair share of time and attention, or, as has been well observed at their opening meeting, there was one side of our nature which science was the only means of cultivating. Our present system of secondary education demanded, it seemed to him, the careful and serious attention of parents, and, if not watched, would constitute a real danger for the country. He observed that Balliol College and New College, to whose co-operation they were so greatly indebted, had very wisely...
...exceedingly gloomy article on the subject of public and college "cheering," the New York Times takes occasion as follows to berate the colleges for their share in the evolution of the great American custom: "Whether Yale or Harvard was guilty of docking the "hurrah" of its first syllable, and making the syllables, "rah, rah, rah" do duty in the guise of "three cheers," it is now impossible to ascertain. The two colleges, however, seem jointly responsible for spreading a depraved taste for "rah" among other colleges and in setting the fashion of distinctive college cheers. Doubtless Yale and Harvard have...
...hardly think the New York Times is justified in its gloomy view of the future of the national cheer, nor that it does right in ascribing so great a share to American colleges in bringing about the present "degeneracy" of the practice. The popular cheer and the college cheer are essentially distinct. If the good people of this country choose to conform the style of their hurrahs more or less to the fashions set by the colleges, surely the latter are not to blame. The form of cheering adopted by any college is its distinctive possession and invaluable birthright...