Word: sightedness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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The injustice of the prescribed system is contrasted with the waste of time through ill advised selections under the elective system. "Prescribed studies may be ill judged or ill adapted, ill timed, or ill taught, but none the less inexorably they fall on just and unjust. The wastes of choice...
"The subject of college honorary degrees is just now attracting considerable attention, and during the next few weeks, while the annual harvest of D. D. 's, L. L. D. 's etc., is being gathered, it will probably become still more prominent. In this country these titles have degenerated into empty...
"It is interesting to watch the students as they gather. The lecture never begins before a quarter past the hour, and during that time the students straggle in, one by one. Each has an enameled cloth or leather pocket, in which he carries his papers and books for taking notes...
We may take a very pleasant, although not very short, walk up North-avenue to one or two streets beyond Porter's station on the Fitchburg railroad. Here we must turn to the right and, once turned, we must "follow our noses," as well as the streets will allow, until...
A few days ago the freshmen and sophomores of Columbia College negated in one of the old-time cane rushes which custom alone authorizes. For some years President Barnard has strongly objected to the continuance of this noble custom, and con sequentially an order was promulgated forbidding all rushes on...