Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...colleges and schools the proper curriculum for inculcating a liberal education is the sole purpose of the present lengthened discussion. Every advance in science and philology, every newly arising social or political requirement, every increase in commercial and industrial extension, in short, every new demand upon the energy and thought of educated men will only increase and broaden this idea of education. It is compulsory on us, the educated men of the succeeding generation, to prepare ourselves for life not by a training course of study invented to meet the requirements of the eleventh or the seventeenth century...
...junior year." Columbia compels her juniors to attend two exercises a week in political economy for half the year, and at Brown juniors and seniors may elect the subject for two hours a week, the one a half, the other a whole year. While the eleventh century thought it had a permanent curriculum in "Lingua, tropus, ratio, numerous, tonus, augulus, astra," history proves that the staples of education have changed, and reason says still more clearly that they must change. It is not proposed to substitute new subjects for the old, but only "to put new subjects beside...
...dressing-rooms on the right of the main entrance are furnished with about 300 lockers, through which run ventilating shafts. This room communicates with the bathrooms, which are fitted up with all the modern conveniences, and it is thought that Turkish baths will soon be introduced. On the other side of the building is the statistician's room. Every student in the college must submit himself to a thorough examination three times during his course, and the resulting figures will be grouped together, and thus the average health and development of the college can be obtained from year to year...
...rowing in very fast time. From one college paper they pass to another, until by continued reiteration they gain weight and are believed even by some Yale men themselves. To some extent this was the case last year, and many were heard to say after the race why, I thought they had made such good time in practice. Why had they thought so? simply from believing rumors which start originally from no one (but the originator) knows where. The fact was that the crew had never done anything in practice that could be called good time. Such rumors, in justice...
...here to prepare for our professions? Then what do the professional schools signify? What we want of Harvard College is not a summa cum laude or a diploma and degree, but the best liberal education that she can afford us. We cannot afford to graduate with the thought that our education is complete. It is only begun. What does "Commencement" mean? We, at best, only can lay at college a respectable foundation upon which to build in after years. Neither specializing nor superficiality will accomplish this. A good, sound, sensible basis upon which we can rely in after life will...