Word: towardness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...most sweeping changes in their frantic haste to reach the state of "an ideal university," they do not hesitate to go to the other extreme, and retain the one relic of by-gone college discipline which, above all others, marks the primitive stage in the evolution of Harvard toward the desired end. Bachelors of Arts need no longer know Greek, but they are still obliged to be present at prayers 576 times, in order to obtain the coveted degree. Is the university, after all, moving forward...
...radical position assumed by Harvard in regard to foot-ball and other branches of college athletics is in contrast to the temperate attitude toward them maintained by Princeton. Two important actions have recently been taken here, one by the faculty, the other by the students, which show the prevailing tendency. In a recent mass-meeting the students appointed a Graduate Committee for foot-ball, base-ball, lacrosse, track athletics, and tennis. The gentlemen who constitute it are Messrs. C. C. Cuyler and David Paton, of New York, and Mr. Alexander Van Reusselaer, of Philadelphia. In a second mass-meeting...
...pages are devoted to a sketch of the changes which have taken place in the college curriculum since 1823. From this it appears that the development of the elective system has been slowly going on ever since that remote period, though of late years greater strides have been taken toward the completion of the plan, as is shown by the fact that in 1871, only 14 years ago, the number of hours of elective work per week was but 168, as against 382 hours of electives, from which students are now allowed to chose their work...
With feelings of gratitude, and affectionate regard toward each and all, I am, dear...
...stamp of the average student. That college which attracts the ambitious, zealous young men of our country will, in the future, be the leading college. Wealth, fortunate location, and noted professors contribute much to the success of any college, but a generation of earnest, ambitious students will do more toward this end than all the other causes combined. The following, then, seems to be a just criterion of the advisability of these new reforms. If the tearing down of the old barriers to entrance and the substitution of the new requirements will attract more men who have some purpose...