Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...years the Review, notwithstanding the fact that it gave nothing for its contributions, barely paid expenses; and never before the present year has it been a paying investment. But, however unsuccessful from a business point of view the Review may have been, its pages have ever exhibited the highest scholarship this country possessed, and its list of contributors includes the name of almost every American writer who has attained any enduring distinction...
...next Tuesday evening President McCosh, of Princeton, will deliver a lecture before the Inter-collegiate Association on "The importance of forming Associations among American Colleges to raise the Standard of Scholarship"; and Colonel T. W. Higginson will deliver an address on the history, objects, and needs of the Association. For four years this Association has been before the public, and every year it has met with less favor than it received the year before. As we have had occasion to show, the examinations cover less ground than do our examinations for second-year honors; so that the Association offers only...
...matter of voluntary attendance the Faculty are still divided in their opinions. After a very full discussion of the subject, the Dean comes to the following conclusions: Among good scholars the cases where the opportunity for irregularity of work has interfered with scholarship are comparatively few; while the fact that students are allowed to arrange their time in accordance with what they conceive to be their best interests bears upon the formation of character, and tends to the promotion of better culture. In regard to the opposite end of the class the Dean says...
...their actions. Howbeit, the decision made by the Committee on Proctorships has not given unalloyed satisfaction to the undergraduate world. This committee has appointed two fresh Seniors (from another college) to the important, passably lucrative, and quite honorable position of proctor, to the exclusion of men of abler scholarship and presumably closer interest with the University, who graduated in '75, '76, and '77. Such action as we complain of is frequent in German universities of equal standing with Harvard, but we hope that hereafter the committee will give the preference to Harvard graduates, to whom, other things being equal...
...matter of honors the graduating class has done something she may well be proud of; for her record is the highest of any class during the last six years at least: we investigated no farther. Of course sound, deep scholarship cannot be measured; for there are very many men who really do hide their candle under a bushel; but in the long run, supposing the number of such men to be about equal in each succeeding year, an estimate of more or less value can be formed from mere outward success. In comparing Seventy-seven's record of honors with...