Word: worked
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...system - in the schools which undertake to fit boys for college. The preparation which is obtained before entrance to any college has a vital importance on success in college, and materially affects the benefits arising from a collegiate education. Under the present system some men will always find college work comparatively easy, while others will have great difficulty in maintaining a high position in the large classes, now the rule and not the exception in our larger and older Colleges. The disparity comes from the different grades of the schools in which men are fitted...
...memory, enable them to manage the classics well enough, and with the use of ponies, which many think now legitimately open to them, for a year may get on fairly. Fortunately most enter advanced a little beyond the entrance limits in mathematics, and so can get through the Freshman work in that branch. But the work grows harder as they advance, and from their very strength at entering, many fall slowly, may be, but surely, in the class...
Undoubtedly college instruction is superior to that of almost any fitting school, if one has any foundation to rest upon. With large sections, the instructor is obliged often to lecture, and treat the students as men of honor who will do their share of the work, and derive additional benefit from his remarks to them. Thus men who come poorly fitted, but eager to learn, appreciate and derive greatest advantage, while those who may fancy the remarks as "too critical," "too old," gradually lose what they do know, and learn nothing...
...applicants received a certificate of the grade given first in the Catalogue, two others were conditioned, and a seventh failed to pass. No alternative but success or perfect failure was contemplated; but two of the applicants did so well that it seemed unfair to let all their work go for nothing, and they can obtain the certificate by passing, next year, those examinations in which they failed. Two or three of the ladies who succeeded will probably try for further honors next year. There is a question whether the names of those who succeeded in the examinations shall be printed...
...parents of both Sophomores and Freshmen, and I urge upon them promptly to throw the whole weight of their influence and authority in favor of the continued abandonment of a custom which has been a reproach to the College and its students, a serious obstacle to the work of both, and which, if not now revived, we may hope has lost its vitality forever...