Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is, however, another department of university growth, which is a more important element in true university prosperity. The position of a college depends greatly on the stamp of the average student. That college which attracts the ambitious, zealous young men of our country will, in the future, be the leading college. Wealth, fortunate location, and noted professors contribute much to the success of any college, but a generation of earnest, ambitious students will do more toward this end than all the other causes combined. The following, then, seems to be a just criterion of the advisability of these...
...exceedingly useful. How often does one wish that he had saved the report of some court decision, scholar's address a statesman's speech, a mayor's message, divorce statistics, new facts and illustrations! How often these things would work into the warp and woof of a student's task if he could only lay his hand upon them at the proper moment...
...most beneficial and practical applications of our classical knowledge to pass into disuse. No method is equal to that of the classical readings offered us in past years in acquiring a practical acquaintance with the various authors who are not read in the elective courses. If a student can ever derive any benefit from his power to read Latin and Greek, he ought to be able to derive that benefit from the classical readings which have hitherto given so great pleasure to us all. There is always danger that in the hurry and distraction of reforming a great system...
...course where a large number of men are compelled to use the same reference books, there is always more or less delay experienced by each student consequent upon the small number of books which can be consulted. This want of reference books is particularly noticeable in the course in Prescribed English. The works reserved are few in number, and far from satisfactory in their selection. There is reserved but one copy of the works of Goldsmith, and the most important volume of this copy has not yet appeared. Unless a better selection in respect to the authors under study...
...believing-; but that we believe that there is some similarity, and that the sole faculty-government, the oligarchy, is doomed to die sooner or later, just as all purely tyrannical and oligarchic governments have died heretofore. As times and civilization advance, sentiment and liberality of thought also advance. College students are getting to be looked upon, not as brainless, careful boys, but rather as men interested in themselves and others, in their education, and in all that concerns their education. Indeed, there is actually conceded to them a certain degree of intellect, and comprehension, mingled perhaps with a small amount...