Word: fogyism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...facts that the Yale graduates are sending their sons to other colleges, and that the number of students is decreasing show conclusively that something is not as it should be. All efforts to locate this something in any characteristic of Yale's government other than her tendency to old fogyism, merely beg the question. Harvard's prosperity since adopting the new ideas, and Yale's present dilemma, taken together show where the trouble...
...exchange which reaches our sanctum is so permeted with musty old fogyism and so little alive to the progressive tendencies of the age as the Yale Record. Yale has ever been noted for the zeal with which it clings to time honored institutions, even after they have passed their usefulness, and for the bitterness with which it resists any innovations; it is not, therefore, surprising that the college press should be tinged with the same spirit of subserviency to ancient things...
...character of a university, the marking system, in its present form, must lose ground." The marking system in vogue in most of our American colleges has been strongly attacked by nearly every member of the college press, and is generally regarded as one of those relics of old-fogyism that are being constantly exterminated from our progressive institutions. That the marking system now used in our colleges will be a thing of the past within a few years, we have not the slightest doubt...