Word: showings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Captain Stag has been testing the material in the freshman class, which, owing to the prohibition of the faculty, was unable to show itself in the customary sophomore-freshman game. Dalzell, '91, is a very good pitcher, but aside from him no phenomenally good players have been developed, and the new material for the nine will have to come from the upper classes...
...Study of History in American Colleges and Universities" has recently been published by the Burean of Education, at Washington. The main object of the publication is to trace the origin of the study of history at the various centers of learning in this country and to show the importance of the political and narrative history of the United States to the college faculties. Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cornell and University of Michigan have been taken as the representative colleges for men in the United States. The following is an extract from the chapter on "History at Harvard University...
Captain Stag has been trying the new material in the freshman class, which has had no chance to show itself as the faculty forbade the usual sophomore-freshman game this year...
...sophomore year arrives, and one eventful night Y, the butterfly, is informed that he has been advanced a grade in the social scale. He emerges from his room the next morning with a fine feeling of self-satisfaction tingling in his spinal marrow. He feels it necessary to show his importance to the world. On his way to breakfast he meets X, but instead of bowing he looks intently at a scrap of paper in the street, or tries to "read the answer in the stars," or something of that kind, for he is now of another world...
...little. Life works by certain divine contagion. Facilities, opportunities, rules, standards, traditions-all are good; but life itself is better, and a working faculty will make a working school. That is the central fact of student life at Harvard; this is a working school. Space forbids any attempt to show here the courses of study, or to insert examination papers fitted to show what advanced students are expected to do. The chief fact is that the standards are all the time advancing, while methods are improved and facilities are increased. The library statistics form one index to show student work...