Word: student
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...attend these lectures, as it is certain that they will be very interesting; but the lectures are introductory to the courses of reading which will be followed in Greek B and C during the first part of the next half-year, and it is therefore necessary that every student who desires to get the full benefit of the courses should hear Professor Wright...
...more than a very small minority of college men in this class. The average collegian, though he may fall far short of his responsibility, is yet a better man for having had it imposed upon him, and college is quite late enough to learn of this responsibility. The student with a foundation of manliness cannot, except unjustly, be made to suffer for the student who if he is maintained now by an artifice system of props, will nevertheless fall as soon as he leaves colleges and is brought in contact with the world. Student life is supposed...
...Every student is required to follow implicitly the directions with regard to paper, folding, endorsing, etc., given on the English Composition card...
...schools; all of the signatures covered fourteen pages of the review. The protest asserts that the examination has lost its true function as the servant of education; that under the competitive system the ideal conception of scholarship has so degenerated that the examination is of more importance by the student than education...
This discussion has a special interest for us who are students. The evils of the present system of examinations are evidently not so developed here as in England; but the system has always been recognized as a possible source of danger in the encouragement it lends to work for rank only. The student of shallow principles and superficial attainments often forgets not only that knowledge is the first object of education, but that honesty is a necessary constituent in the character of a gentleman. Some things are best perceived through their influence upon the objects about them. We know that...