Word: students
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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While restrictions on the selection of courses will affect only a part of the undergraduates and that in but a limited degree, the enforced residence together of all men in their first year will leave its impression on every student who enters the College. To break down the barriers between preparatory school groups, to minimize the natural distinctions which differences of geographical origin and of wealth have set up--in a word to encourage class coherence and so to produce democratic men--will be the natural results of this system...
...speak to you with reference to the claims of teaching as a profession, and I propose to treat it under the four following heads: first, in its relation to the student life; second, in its relation to the outside world; third, comparatively, how does this profession rank with other professions which may engage your attention? fourth, and last, what are some of the inward satisfactions coming from this profession, which I think are sufficiently great to attract men to it? Because in this, as in any other profession which we undertake, everything depends upon our being peculiarly qualified...
...first place, the relation to student life. What I wish to consider at the present moment is the scope and character of the relation between the faculty and the students. Are these such as to draw forth the best energies and finest attempts of a man? In other words, viewed from the student's point of view, is the profession worth while...
...mean to speak particularly of the relation that exists between pupil and teacher in our colleges, between members of the teaching force, and members of the student body. You, of course, look upon us as people who lie over on the other side of a barrier. You look upon us as people set in authority, more or less interfering with your occupations in undergraduate days, imposing tasks upon you, which perhaps we have a legal right to do, yet you feel that you would be better if we did not interfere. But in such an attitude you are losing...
...That a student's plan be subsequently changed only for a cause satisfactory to the committee...