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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recent issue, the Amherst Student, speaking editorially of what the elective system has done to bring about a greater cordiality in the relations between professor and student, and of the good effects of that greater cordiality, says, "There is some danger, however, that the present plan will revert to the former condition, and unless some efforts are put forward in all our higher institutions of learning, we may again see the professor and student living within themselves. Very recently some of the professors at Harvard were complaining that they are fast becoming exhausted by unintermitted intercourse with students." If such...
...personal friendships between teacher and taught have grown out of such intercourse-friendships which have been a stimulus to finer scholarship and nobler manhood. It is difficult to conceive that such effects are exhausting. But a still greater proof of the approval with which the intimate relationship existing between student and professor at Harvard is found in the recent College Conference meeting, at which Mr. Roger Wolcott talked to the students of the regulations passed by the Overseers. Never before in an American college has the right of the students to discuss and understand measures for their own government been...
...number of the Advocate, the '90 board takes control of the paper. The issue is hardly above the average of the preceding volume in any respect. The editorials treat chiefly of the paper itself and the aims of the new board. The special province of the advocate in the student world is defined, and the manner in which the editors mean to fulfil their functions. Attention is called to the small number of men at present constituting the board, and outsiders are urged to contribute...
...Study in Unhappiness" contains the discussion of student life begun recently under "Topics of the Day." It shows that even one who 'passes for a "brilliant" man' may not be thoroughly satisfied with his achievements. It is rather depressing in its tone, though it contains the charm of a personal confession...
There is a rule at Lehigh that a student receiving eighty-five per cent. or over in recitation, shall be exempt from examinations. As a result more than half the students passed last year without taking examinations...