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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...There is so much spoken and unspoken criticism of Harvard College that those who know the inner working of life among the mass of students are sometimes moved to anger and sometimes to mirth by the condition of the public mind towards institutions of education. Many seem to regard Harvard as a patent machine, warranted by the corporation and faculty to take any material in its grip, and, after four years, turn out a first-class scholar and gentleman. No matter how ill prepared, how feeble the mind, how powerless the will, how vicious the habits, how indolent the nature...
TUTORING in History 9 and Polit. Econ. 8. J. A. HILL, Graduate Student, 10 Oxford street...
TUTORING in History 9 and Polit. Econ. 8. J. A. HILL, Graduate Student, 10 Oxford street...
...that those colleges which advocate the introduction of regular gymnasium work have lately received an addition to their ranks. Johns Hopkins University has gone so far as to prescribe steady gymnasium work as a requisite for obtaining a degree. A sound body is certainly to be desired in a student, but we consider it inadvisable to thrust a knowledge of the flying rings upon a man to whom such instruction is distasteful. Better far to use one's persuasive powers on recalcitrant gymnasts...
TUTORING in History 9 and Polit. Econ. 8. J. A. HILL, Graduate Student, 10 Oxford street...