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...possibility of pursuing any middle course under the present system. President Eliot and Professor White seemed to consider such a course quite impossible. Mr. Coolidge and others argued that by a judicious oversight by the faculty committee and by using extreme care in employing professionals as trainers no element of professionalism need be introduced into our sports. The excess of college athletics could easily be checked, and things reduced to the basis of the time not long passed, when the present crusade against professionalism was unheard of. The objection of the faculty, it was urged in reply, was to professionalism...
...especially. Apart, of course, from the deepening of religious and moral feelings, I know of nothing more to be desired for our country than a broader and deeper cultivation of the literature and science of the world at large. We are developing too much in obedience to a single element of progress-to what I have in another place called "mercantilism" I see nothing but a more devoted cultivation of art, science, and literature which can modify this. And, so far as literature is concerned, while I have nothing to say against those who are devoted to ancient literature...
...dean of the college in his report states that discipline among the students has required the action of the faculty in but few cases during the year, and that on all ordinary occasions the unruly element, which may be presumed to exist in any body of a thousand young men, is kept in control by the powerful sentiment of the great majority, which has proved a far more effective instrument for the maintenance of good order and gentlemanly conduct than the system of minute regulations formerly in force. The college library has received an accession of 8441 books during...
...whenever the latter is in high health and vigor. When the body is feeble and sickly, the mind is either checked and hampered in its impulses, or, attempting to ride them boldly forward, breaks down altogether. The habit of being beforehand with whatever a man undertakes is an important element of success. The only sure method of securing intellectual thrift and comfort of doing what one does without distraction. and so of doing it in the most healthy condition of one's faculties, is to establish the habit of anticipation in work. Have some fresh intellectual acquisition always in hand...
Perhaps we ought for the present to look upon the marking system as a necessary evil. Nevertheless we do not come to college to be marked; and it may be laid down as a truism that any course of instruction in which the element of marks preponderates over that of instruction, in which the energies of the instructor are expended in estimating the work rather than in criticising it, and in which the practical result and outcome of the student is a mark and not the means by which to do better,-that any such course of study...