Word: student
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their meeting on Wednesday will strike a great number of the recent graduates as an unfortunate retrograde movement. During the twenty years, more or less, in which President Eliot has occupied his position, there has been steady progress in the direction of placing greater reliance on the individual student and less upon a vexatious code of rules and penalties...
...extract from the pupil a fixed amount of work and exact from him a strict obedience to a body of minute regulations, to the broad life of a true university, in which great privileges are offered to those who will avail themselves of them, while in return each student is required to conform himself to such regulations only as are necessary for the maintenance of order and of honor and to satisfy his instructors that he is making a reasonable use of his opportunities...
...regards the great body of undergraduates the reforms have been received as they were offered; here as elsewhere responsibility has had its educating effect, and the student who formerly regarded it as his duty to take the full number of 'cuts' permitted without punishment, under the new regime loses the desire to absent himself...
...Every student is required to follow implicitly the directions with regard to paper, folding, endorsing, etc., given on the English Composition card...
...this board it is expedient that every undergraduate be required to report in person early every morning, with a moderate and fixed allowance for occasional absences. That attendance at the exercises of each course be more rigidly enforced. That the system of advisers, somewhat as applied to special students, be extended to the freshman class. That the reports of the presence and absence of students be collected daily by monitors and daily entered on the books. That no choice of studies made by a student be valid if it call for more than three lectures or recitations...