Word: studiousness
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...ideas of their class, but also the editors in publishing decided that college opinion would not be harsh in criticising such ideas. And when so many as are the editors and writers agree in the policy of praising study, it is not too much to say that a more studious feeling is beginning to prevail at Harvard than has for many years back existed...
...must admit that these advantages, allowing them the greatest weight, prove no more than that it would be a kind and fair thing to help the unstudious to a little knowledge that they perhaps would not otherwise get; and to put the studious in such a position that they may get the best return for their work. But if the syllabus were given out at the beginning of the year, these results could be reached as well, or even better; for it would then serve as an index, or table of contents, to the work to be done, and some...
...Thus independence is placed at a discount, and we are too much tempted to do only what will please. Roughing a man on his personal and long-established habits never goes far towards removing them. It is only disagreeable and offensive to him. "A. C." mentions a loafer made studious and an absent-minded man reformed by this "system." I very much doubt the existence of such cases...
...live a life that's studious, very...
...regard to Germany "every one ought to know that the foundation of German scholarship is laid, not in the universities, but in the Gymnasien. At these institutions attendance is rigidly required." At all the universities a few only are studious; a large portion of the students take more interest in drinking, singing, and duelling than in study...