Word: timing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...dining hall of Memorial at 9.30 o'clock, and march to Sanders Theatre. The President and Fellows, Board of Overseers, and the Faculties, will take their places on the platform of Sanders Theatre before 9.45 o'clock. Delegates bringing addresses may hand them to the President at the time of their presentation. A coat-room will be provided in Memorial Hall. Delegates will be furnished with tickets for persons accompanying them. This meeting will be open to Officers of Instruction and Government, alumni, and students of the University, and friends accompanying them. The doors will be closed...
Delegates bringing addresses may hand them to the President at the time of Presentation...
...light and air. They have given us a freedom of movement needed for further progress. May we not say of the extreme elective system what Edmond Sherer said of democracy; that it is but one stage in an irresistible march toward an unknown goal? Progress means change, and every time of growth is a transitional era; but in a peculiar degree the present state of the American college bears the marks of a period of transition. This is seen in the comparatively small estimation in which high proficiency in college studies is held both by undergraduates and by the public...
...college education, there is much to be said for a readjustment of that nature, because we all know the comparative disadvantage under which technical instruction is given in college, and we are not less aware of the great difficulty of teaching cultural and vocational subjects at the same time. The logical result of the policy would be that of Germany, where the university is in effect a collection of professional schools, and the underlying general education is given in the "gymnasium." Such a course has, indeed, been suggested, for it has been proposed to transfer so far as possible...
...individual student ought clearly to be developed so far as possible, both in his strong and in his weak points, for the college ought to produce, not defective specialists, but men intellectually well-rounded, of wide sympathies, and unfettered judgement. At the same time they ought to be trained to hard and accurate thought, and this will not come merely by surveying the elementary principles of many objects. It requires a mastery of something, acquired by continuous application. Every student ought to know in some subject what the ultimate sources of opinion are, and how they are handled by those...