Word: working
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...glad to see so many changes for the better in the Elective Pamphlet for next year. The most important change, of course, is the giving up of most of the required work and the substitution of elementary electives in its place. We sincerely hope that the success of this experiment will be proved by the selection of these elementary courses by a large number of students. The danger is that men may be tempted to neglect these for more advanced courses, and so fail to get the benefit which they formerly derived from the required work. We are glad...
...degenerate to the level of the numerous prizes of "small-sized colleges." Even if this were true, it would be a valid objection only if the purpose of honors were to furnish a subject for undergraduate boast; but, as a fact, they have a definite and much more sensible work to do, - they are intended to furnish inducements to study. And the question is not whether the new honors are in themselves more or less valuable, but whether they are better fitted to encourage study. The writer, at least in the first part of his article, seems to think they...
...writer of the article referred to is of the opinion that the men who now get Commencement parts will, under the new system, have "less instigation" to work. This objection might have some show of plausibility if the standard of requirements for parts were lowered, and nothing more done. But by the new system new inducements to work have been offered to these men, - the new grades, "honorable mention" and magna cum laude, have been established, and summa cum laude, an honor which heretofore has had very nearly no effect at all, will now influence the work of perhaps seven...
...effect of the new system on the "middle class," the moderately good scholars, it is asserted that these men will be encouraged to take "soft" electives and to work for marks. This, apparently, is the only sound objection that has been offered; but the writer does not seem to realize that this is an evil, not of the new system merely, but of any honor-system whatever. So long as honors are offered men are likely to neglect their real gain in working for them. It must be borne in mind that an honor-system necessarily starts with the supposition...
There may be a difference of opinion as to whether a specialist "ought to complain" if, under the present system, he gets no credit in his specialty because he takes fifteen and not eighteen hours of work; but probably no one will deny that the new system does him far greater justice...