Word: timed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...rather liked the fellow at first. I thought he was a fresh and ingenuous youth, for whose benefit I could pour forth my reserved stores of wisdom. But after I had told him about fifty times how old I was, how large my allowance was, etc., it began to grow monotonous. I said, "Look here, old fellow! I'll just write down all those things, such as how old I am, how much money my father has, how many sisters I have, how old they are, etc., and then you can nail it up on your door so that...
...that those who arrange for us such matters as marks, degrees, etc., have called something to their aid which is perfectly definite. It is easy to say that this man has given so many hours to this subject while another has devoted to the same thing either half the time or twice the time. The question I want to ask is whether it follows as a logical conclusion that in the former case the second man has learned but half as much as the first, and, in the other case, twice as much...
Those of us whose ambition is restrained within a narrower compass, whose aspirations are confined merely to a degree, have the same difficulty about the extent of our knowledge and the length of time we have been acquiring it. Seniors, as a general rule, take four three-hour electives. They are obliged to take twelve hours, and this is ordinarily the most convenient division of the twelve. It often happens that one of the four courses has some particular interest which the others lack, or two may interest a man and the other two bore him; or he may search...
...that of an historian collecting the materials for volumes upon which his fame is to rest. The man who has this course may have two others upon which he must do hard work; then, by the regulation of the Faculty, he must take something else to fill up his time! This is a regulation that seems to me unnecessary. I do not propose that Seniors should have three courses instead of four required of them. Some number must be prescribed, and perhaps, in most cases, four is none too many. But the regulation should be made elastic, so to speak...
...When the time comes in which knowledge can be measured by its thoroughness; when men receive a degree because they know well something that is worth knowing, and higher honors are given to men who learn much in a short time than to those who are twice the time in acquiring the same thing; when the great principle that men are responsible to themselves and to no one else for their education is fully recognized, both by those who study and those who teach, - then, and not till then, Harvard will cease to be a high school or a college...