Word: things
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recite their lessons, are marked, and then go home again. It is needless to say that the principles of the new education, as set forth so ably in the Andover Review for November, find no place nor favor here. 'I do not believe in trying that sort of thing with boys,' was the remark made to me of the matter. Such opinions are unconsciously based on experience furnished by the University of Pennsylvania, and, thus applied, I should concur in them. It would be utterly unwise to attempt to introduce the system in full operation at Harvard at once into...
...often been pleaded for, and sometimes with skill and enthusiasm, and by men eminently qualified to speak of the subject; as by President White, of Cornell, before the National Educational Association in 1874. But the plan, I fear, will never be successfully carried out before another thing is done. What we need as yet is not so much the university as the student. There is still almost wholly wanting among us that higher ambition in our young men which is necessary in order that a university may live and thrive. We need the ambition that would go beyond the studies...
...copy after them in these respects." I do not imagine, however, that "our university men" will give their influence in that direction, and I believe the CRIMSON teaches, not that we are to follow what is American because it is American, but because it is emphatically the best thing...
...exception to the rule. Last week some one forced an entrance, which by the way is no difficult task, and succeeded in obtaining an old hammer. Why he was not more amply rewarded can be attributed to the fact that the above named article was the only thing worth taking. - Cornell...
...process of "mental and moral stunting," traceable, of course, to his application to English in the primary schools. Going further up the scale, can any one observe the enervated and demoralized state of the average foreigner, after a short struggle with our tongue, without feeling what a terrible thing this language is? No remarks need be made about "ye student and his theme," for they always speak loudly for themselves, yea even profanely sometimes...