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Having told you what the "co-ed" is, how and when she came, how she lives and where, I can better answer the questions you put in the letter which called forth this communication...
...when asked by a stern examiner what he would recommend in order to produce copious perspiration in a patient, replied, "I'd make him try to pass an examination before you, sir!" had a keen sense of humor, which it is to be hoped the examiner appreciated. His answer was in keeping with the question which has been argued by us and by others, whether the whole subject of examinations, as at present conducted, should not be thoroughly overhauled and revised. - [Chamber's Journal...
...Times man, it is easily seen, is a miserable Philistine, whose narrow, minded prejudices should receive no mercy at the hands of an impartial public. His sophisms are too transparent to require an answer...
...examinations, most of which applies mainly to preparatory and grammar schools. A few remarks, however, may be quoted with some bearing on the evils of the system here. It says: "It is no uncommon thing to find examination papers which an accomplished literary man would not undertake to answer unless he had two or three days and the aid of a good library. That too much is often required, that subjects are given which cannot be properly treated, and that much harm is done to boys and young men by the forcing process to which they are subjected, can hardly...
...John LeConte, ex-president of the University of California; President Angeil of the University of Michigan; President Beach of Wesleyan University; President Warren of Boston University; President Fairchild of Oberlin College; Mrs. Louis Agassiz, on the development of the Harvard Annex, and others. These letters were written in answer to questions sent out by the association to the presidents of several American universities where co-education is in operation. The effect of co-education was asked on the standard of scholarship, the manners and morals of both sexes, and the health of women students, and whether young men had been...