Word: student
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...falls short of its mark. Its occurrence may produce a temporary effect toward industry, but the lasting good that accrues is hard to see. Is it just that the difficult and vexatious work necessary to prepare for an hour examination should be inflicted upon the great number of conscientious students, simply for the good of a few who are either lazy or reckless? It seems that nearly all the instructors are coming to this opinion. Such a system seems to accord ill with the liberal spirit that generally pervades Harvard's action. We believe in a simple warning and then...
Carlyle said he thought he should have been a wiser man and certainly a good liar one if he had followed his father's steps and left Latin and Greek to the fools who wanted them.- Amherst Student...
...great use to those who take the course on that subject. The books on political economy were given by members of the class of 1879, and those on United States history have been given in memory of one of that class-Glendower Evans. Evans had been an excellent student while in college, though he did not work for marks and was not among the highest in rank. He gave much of his time to reading, and few college men have had such a wide range of reading on graduation than he had. He entered the Law School and began...
...cannot be permanently separated. To be sure, in Germany, the two offices have been differentiated by the gymnasium and the university: but, in the latter, in recent times, there is a manifest return to old-fashioned tutorial methods in the institutions of the so-called Seminar, where professor and student are once more brought to gather as master and pupil. Harvard College has never departed altogether from the scholastic system upon which the institution was founded. In the maintenance of the classics, the lecture-system, tutors, examinations and recitations, as well as of religious exercises, and of moral restraints, this...
...courses of historical information for the current year, 1886-87, he will be strongly impressed with the remarkable advance made during the past decade. In the number, variety, extent and attractiveness of the historical work now offered at Harvard University that institution rivals a German university. The American student no longer absolutely needs to go abroad for thorough instruction in European and American History. He can find it in Cambridge, Mass. All the methods which characterize the most advanced historical work and all the facilities for special research in libraries that a student could reasonably demand are in existence there...