Word: students
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...undergraduate better preparation in regard to the actual learning it gives him.- (a) The range of studies he may pursue is larger: Four American Universities, 26 fg.- (1) As is shown by comparison of the courses offered by Harvard with those offered by Amherst or Williams.- (b) The student is afforded better facilities for the pursuit of one course of study in its higher branches: Educational Review VII, 26; Graduates' Magazine, I, 48-49; President Eliot's Report for 1891-2; Four American Universities. p. 26 fg.- (1) He has better equipped libraries and laboratories at his command...
...moral influence of the university life is a better preparation for active life.- (a) The student's enthusiasm for his work is kept more fully alive by the elective system: Educational Review, VII, 313; VIII, 64.- (1) It allows him to pursue the branches in which he is interested.- (2) He can avoid branches disagreeable to him.- (3) The presence of graduate workers acts as a constant incentive to him.- (4) He is stimulated by more sympathetic intercourse with his instructors.- (b) It leads to "Emancipation of Thought"; Educational Review, IV, 366; VII, 313 fg.; Graduates' Magazine...
...smaller college offers educational advantages not furnished by the university.- (a) Instructors are able to take a personal interest in each student: Charles Kendall Adams, The Next Step in Education, in Forum X, 624 (February, 1891).- (b) There is greater incentive to studey.- (1) In rivalry among students.- (2) In appreciation of results attained...
...student of the University having a degree from a college or professional school is invited to be present, and may become a member by simply signing the constitution...
...career sprung upon us so abruptly by the President, and which Mr. Roosevelt considers it to be a sort of treason now to oppose. There are enough of us who believe that the development of such a national career would be pregnant of calamity for civilization. Men at the student-age are easily swayed by phrases. But I trust that no catch-words or nicknames will deter Harvard students who have once made up their minds adversely on the general question, from beginning the fight just at this very point, and doing what little they can towards bringing the threatened...