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...first place, it is a compromise between desire to try a change and fear of possible bad effects; and, as is usually the case with a compromise, it fails to give any sure test. Suppose that this plan works ill, it does not therefore follow that the other plan, of allowing those in the later years of college to study as seems most advantageous to themselves, would also fail. For the latter would bring an entirely new element into the experiment; that is, it would rouse in nearly all the students a sense of responsibility, without which no system...
...present writing Williams, Amherst, Bowdoin, and Brown have signified their willingness to meet us, while no answers have been received from the others. As to how, when, and where to play these Colleges, should they be challenged, nothing, of course can be decided as yet; but there are two plans talked of, the latter of which is considered by far preferable, if practicable. The first plan is to meet each club separately at some city equidistant from the two colleges. This would necessitate an outlay of money rather larger than desirable, and would also consume time which would be hard...
...suggestive rather than condemnatory, we will close with a proposal. On the Delta stands a building, the interior of which is a beautiful and spacious hall, having beneath it the means of preparing dinner for eight hundred persons. Why should not Commons be removed thither? According to the present plan this hall is to be used on one day alone during the year, - for the dinner of the Alumni. We hope that that Association will yield one of its privileges, and confer health and comfort on hundreds who will come here when our college life is but a memory...
...with tolerable success; but it is significant that, after pupils have got almost to manhood, the slacker the government has been, the more marked the success. It is also to be noticed - and Dr. McCosh is unfair in not noticing - that the two serious objections offered to the plan of voluntary recitations apply also with great force to the present system. It is indeed true that great numbers of men enter college without any appreciation of study; but it is also true that great numbers leave college in the same condition. So, too, even now, cramming is very prevalent. Both...
...chief advantage the new system will have over the old is that it will compel the students to plan for themselves. This will have the same good effect in college that it has in the outside world, where men who find their judgment a safe guide in some things are likely to trust to it in others rather than to public opinion. College, at present, by no means causes such independence of thought as one would naturally expect...