Word: sortes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...highly amusing when viewed in the light of two hundred and fifty years. We know little of undergraduate life of the first six or seven years, but in 1643 we are told that the first commencement was held. By this time a system of government, of a very crude sort, had shaped itself. The first code of laws put forth by the college authorities was known as the "Dunster Code," and its first regulation was as follows: "When any scholar is able to understand Tully, or such like classical author, extempore, and make and speak true Latin, in verse...
...whether the college will approve the marking system; for the present Mid-years are its first great and questionable test. And the verdict will be interesting in more ways than one. It will not only show one ideas of the true measure of knowledge but will also be a sort of gauge of our own modesty. For, when a man finds himself ranked with a class, he naturally looks to see who his companions are. If he thinks he is quite as good a scholar as they are he is rather dissatisfied. It is, moreover, obvious that if the majority...
...college man of good presence, who wants to earn money by evening work of the canvassing sort, can be accommodated with a good opportunity, at good pay, by addressing B., care CRIMSON printer, Cambridge...
...college man of good presence, who wants to earn money by evening work of the canvassing sort, can be accommodated with a good opportunity, at good pay, by addressing B., care CRIMSON printer, Cambridge...
...quality, quite another. Old educational systems are often said to have erred by excess of authority. I could not say so. The elective system, if it is to possess the future, must become as authoritative as they. More accurately we say that their authority was of a wrong sort. There are two kinds of authority, - the authority of moral guidance, and the authority of repressive control. Which shall college authority be? Authority is necessary, ever-present authority. If the young man's choice is to become a thing of worth, it must be encompassed with limitations. But as the need...