Word: gradually
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Pres. Gilman of Johns Hopkins University has make a plea to the various colleges to consider a plan by which an inter-collegiate system of granting degrees may be adopted. Pres. Gilman has long been identified with the movement toward a gradual broadening of the curriculum of a college course, and the plan which he now puts forth is worthy of great consideration. Any radical movement which has long been needed is very likely to be carried to an excess if it is not restricted by some restraining influence. While it is of course granted that some change should...
...athletic teams must be improved. The best material of the college is not in them. But we cannot hope to effect the improvement by pressure brought to bear upon men who have never felt an interest, or taken active part in athletic sports. The work should be more gradual, and more thorough. The training schools of athletics as of learning, must be the preparatory schools. All our best men in athletics came here with high local reputations, and it is upon them that the hardest work in athletics falls. Very few promising men appear in athletics after the freshman year...
...college curriculum as early as 1825. The growth toward a more free election of studies has steadily progressed since then. And the near future will see the course of study purely elective. The present stand of the faculty has thus been necessarily forced on them by the gradual development of an elective system inaugurated by the first board of overseers...
...management of the college. There seemed to be a feeling that we were doing too much in the way of changes even as regards improvements. If there is a perennial plant in this world it is the Harvard boy, and he will not submit to changes unless they are gradual. To reform the manners of the students we must reform the manners of the overseers. Another line of criticism among undergraduates has been about the choice of studies as being novel and as representing a too fast movement. I want to point out the fact that Harvard College has been...
...very few places. What deficiencies there were, were chiefly in the Ruy Blas overture, a little unsteadiness being occasionally noticeable in some of the sudden and trying changes of tempo; and Mr. Gericke's reading seemed to arrive at the climax rather too soon, there not being a sufficient gradual working up to the close. The soloist was Mr. M. Loeffler, and it was a great pleasure to have him again here this winter. His performance a year ago will be remembered as a very excellent and musicianly one; and the impression of his merits as a violinist was greatly...