Word: thwing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recent review of C. F Thwing's book on "American colleges" says: In his chapters on Morals and Religion the author draws conclusions very unfavorable to city colleges compared with those located in country towns. He thinks that the proximity of drinking-shops and disreputable houses, as well as the fact that city colleges draw their students mainly from residents of cities, who are familiar with vice, tends to lower the moral tone of the students; and he adduces many facts in proof of his position. There is undoubtedly much truth in this view. Large colleges certainly have a large...
...present below a short summary of a most interesting chapter on college journalism, in a book entitled "American Colleges" by the Rev. C. F. Thwing of Cambridge, which we hope shortly to review more at length...
...followed in the steps of the "Cabinet"until in 1839 the "Yale Lit" was founded, and this is now the foremost of her publications. Among its editors it has numbered Pres. Gilman of Jolms Hopkins, Secretary Evarts, Donald Milchell and others of equal renown. Of Harvard'd publications Mr. Thwing says "although Harvard's papers have been less numerous than Yale's, they indicate, (considered as a whole) greater literary ability and have had greater influence on college opinion." This is certainly flattering. In 1827 we find that the "Harvard Register" appeared as a monthly with several contributors who have...
...Thwing evidently has a high opinion of the average college paper, both as a "mirror of undergraduate sentiment" and as an "admirable training school for professional journalists," while he considers it of great service to the cause of higher education in "promoting inter-collegiate friendship and in exhibiting the methods of instruction and government," at the various colleges. But he also recognizes the dangers to which the college journalist is exposed but considers that they can be avoided by taking proper precautions. But he pays them the highest compliment when, speaking of their moral influence, he says.-"The college paper...
...perennial question of hazing is again, with the opening of the college year, agitating the public press. Remedy on remedy for the evil is proposed, all apparently equally unefficacious. Mr. Charles F. Thwing of Cambridge, in a recent article, expresses the opinion that "the regarding of the student as a citizen of the town in which the college is situated, and as responsible to its officers for all criminal offenses, whether stealing a sign or hazing a freshman, serves to weaken the force of the custom. Many colleges thus treat their members, and the members so regard themselves. The difficulty...