Word: weaknesses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...near the truth he approximated in his answers. We do not refer to the custom some instructors have of not giving marks, as this needs no comment. But a mark alone is always unsatisfactory enough if the man does not know in what his book is weak. The only way to have examinations do any good besides fixing, though with a delightful degree of uncertainty, his rank, is for the instructor to return to every student his blue-book with corrections. This may entail a little more labor on the instructor, but the satisfaction felt by the students will amply...
...leave if any more "females" were admitted to the college. The faculty, after an investigation which is not made public, have yielded to the rebellious boys and promised to shut out women from the institution's privileges. Commenting on this, the Springfield Republican says: "Such a course is weak and censurable. The offending professor might have been discharged if he was guilty of indecency, or the young women might have been allowed to depart if they were prurient; but to issue a wholesale order against womankind is a mean retreat before a parcel of boys...
...clock, but did not commence until 2.40. There was no occasion for this unreasonable delay, and surely it should not have been allowed when darkness sets in at so early an hour. The Harvard men were heavier and stronger than their opponents, but showed a lamentable weakness of head or management, failing to play well together or support one another effectively. Individually they played very well, but there was much inexperience and ignorance of the rules of the game apparent. The ball was quite slippery and hard to handle, which may explain the muffing of some of the tends...
...most timely and sensible suggestion comes to us from Harvard in the establishment there of three prizes for the best general development in the next six months. As it is well known that weak men at the beginning make greater relative development under the same condition than strong men, these prizes offer a special inducement to the men who most need the training they call for, and hence admirably solve the problem. They are not merely open as are the prizes at the athletic games, to the few strong men of the college, but to everybody - the pale, consumptive-looking...
...education. He has issued a circular advising that all the boys in the higher schools of the country shall be made to play games. The physical condition of the pupils is not what German opinion would have it. While the boys are proficient in their studies, they are weak, listless and unenterprising. The remedy is to be sought by official direction in out-door games requiring skill and agility. The words of Dr. Crosby would have had more weight had they been less sweeping. He spoke like an extremist...