Word: systemize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Wigmore, H. U. '83, L. S., '87, has just published a very noticeable book on the "Australian Ballot System." Mr. Wigmore was recently awarded the one thousand dollar prize offered by the Medico-Legal Society of New York for the best essay on the subject: "Circumstantial Evidence in Poison Cases...
...overseers have called forth such comment in the newspapers of the day, and particularly in the college press, as to put in an unfair light the liberal policy of our university. It has suddenly become the fashion for many other colleges to wash their hands of Harvard's system and to put themselves on record as supporters to a greater or less extent of the conservative spirit. It is, of course, obvious that a blind liberal policy is more dangerous than a blind conservative policy, but that critic of the Harvard system who designates it as blindly liberal shows immediately...
...better man for having had it imposed upon him, and college is quite late enough to learn of this responsibility. The student with a foundation of manliness cannot, except unjustly, be made to suffer for the student who if he is maintained now by an artifice system of props, will nevertheless fall as soon as he leaves colleges and is brought in contact with the world. Student life is supposed to be a preparation for the world, not a shield from it, and there can be no better element in this preparation than a feeling of individual responsibility...
Such are some of the evils of the competitive system. American educators are now trying to find a method of examinations which will adequately determine the intellectual rank and still not make the examination the "end all" of the students' ambition...
This discussion has a special interest for us who are students. The evils of the present system of examinations are evidently not so developed here as in England; but the system has always been recognized as a possible source of danger in the encouragement it lends to work for rank only. The student of shallow principles and superficial attainments often forgets not only that knowledge is the first object of education, but that honesty is a necessary constituent in the character of a gentleman. Some things are best perceived through their influence upon the objects about them. We know that...