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...face of outside opinion once more," says the writer, "I would not hesitate to affirm that, with the sole exception of the 'swell,' the 'grind' is the least valuable and useful type of college student. While a rational and vigorous attention to study is the prime object of a college course, the man who devotes himself to study exclusively, withdrawing himself from all human interest, is quite as mistaken an extremist as he who neglects his studies altogether. The former's science of navigation may be excellent, but if he does not know the sun when he sees...
...well. But how can it be otherwise? Men whose whole attention has been given to discovering what will pay in the schools are not likely, when they have gained their reward and a sinecure annuity to devote themselves to disinterested study. Examinations and original research are incompatible terms. The object of the one is to appear wise, the object of the other to be so. The one is mercenary, the other unselfish. I have known of cases in which men have come to Oxford with a fresh and sympathetic interest in language or history, and have sadly watched it gradually...
...disgust the instructor, and we can say from experience that it disgusts the writer of the paper. It is almost impossible to get a fair estimate of a man's ability from the hasty scrawl which he really feels obliged to hand in, and we fail to see what object the instructor can have in view in setting such a paper, unless he wishes to test the students carelessness, and not of his intelligence. The custom, however, is founded in antiquity and supported by long practice, so we suppose it is idle to expect any change, and the student might...
...cribber" to enter the examination room he places the sheets under his tightly-but-toned coat, walks boldly into the lions' den, seats himself at his table, and hastens to write a page or two of something or other. Just what it is doesn't matter. The main object is to have some freshly written pages on the table. When this is accomplished the adventurer stealthily unbuttons his coat, and at a favorable moment draws his "cribbed" papers from his bosom and pushes them in among the mass of manuscript before him. When this is done the rest...
...work hard and earnestly at Harvard," in spite of the "notorious" tendency of her students to make life as easy as possible by selecting soft courses. After making this admission, the Princetonian enters on a discussion of the main question, and makes the following stock objections to the Harvard regime. It is maintained in the first place that work "in a set of studies that are not rationally connected, *** is wholly without value as a matter of consistent mental discipline." This claim is partly true, but we object to its application to the work done in our college...