Word: thoroughly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Such necessary evils as working for marks, cramming for examinations, and compulsory recitations are also eliminated. Then, too, the difficulty of an examination is generally exaggerated, or at least duly appreciated, and the consequence is a more thorough and extended preparation. The certificates given to successful candidates will be worded so as to cover the different degrees of merit, and will in time, we hope, prove a far more valuable recommendation of a young lady than any slip-shod boarding-school accomplishments...
...this nature are the merest society twaddle. Servant-girls and babies may be very pleasant topics of conversation to these young ladies, but they are hardly the subjects one would choose to drag before the public in an essay for a quarterly, and in such a place thorough discussion of a matter is expected rather than a superficial narration. Besides all this, such articles as "The Moon Hoax" - a valuable piece of information, no doubt - are more suited to the local columns of the daily press than to pages where we have a right to expect something more than mediocrity...
Some, perhaps, will deny the value of this thorough mastery of a few branches of knowledge instead of an acquaintance with all; in answer, two considerations might be brought up, - one the effect on character of becoming perfectly certain in some department of learning, feeling that in one thing at least success has been attained and not merely half-way work; the other an argument from the desire for culture - true culture - itself the training of the whole mind, not by vague ideas gained in careless study or reading, but by definite, clear-cut knowledge of that for which...
...columns of the Evening Post has induced us to give it some attention. A just criticism generally has a healthy tendency, and ought to go far toward correcting those faults which it censures. But an incomplete statement of facts, whether done willingly or ignorantly, a slight investigation where a thorough one is needed, the consideration of a question where prejudice is drawn upon more than common-sense, and from certain premises to draw conclusions entirely foreign to the subject discussed, - are in themselves indications of a lack of valid objections to the object criticised...
...results. My experience, which I think is not peculiar, is that it is best to neglect in great measure the recitations, till a general idea of the whole matter and of the relation of its parts to one another is impressed on the mind. Then, by several reviews, minute, thorough knowledge can be gained with great ease and no injury. If President Eliot's suggestions are acted upon, there will be, no doubt, much cramming for examinations, but very little for recitations. In this respect the proposed system has a decided advantage over...