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...fact that "it uplifts character as no other training can, and through influence on character, it ennobles all methods of teaching and discipline." The one thing demanded under a free choice of studies is that the student should "will to study something. . . . The will is honored as of prime consequence." Under the influence of a volition, a student works under no disguises, he is forced "to be conscious of what he is doing," to perceive "that gains and losses are immediately connected with a volitional attitude...
...colleges. A boy who could go no further than the high school ought in the higher classes of that school to be taught classical and modern languages, for instance, in a somewhat different way from one who was to enter the preparatory schools and colleges. It is a prime necessity that the professors in colleges and the principals of preparatory schools should understand each other before they can be able to secure co-operation. There are many difficulties in the path of the preparatory school teacher. He is seldom willing to confine himself exclusively to the drudgery and drill work...
...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...
...yard is their headquarters, and the thirsty student is often compelled to await his turn until the individual members of the detail of muckerism which happens to have precedence over him have sufficiently amused themselves and their comrades by various feats of agility of which the pump is the prime motor. It is useless for the faculty to attempt to rejuvenate the sickly sward while it is the camping ground of muckerism. Never has the college been so troubled by this form of torment, and never has the condition of the yard been so deplorable. It is needless to draw...
...competitors last evening showed themselves to be speakers of great power, a few of high polish. Little of the traditional declamation was heard. It seemed that at last the idea of the best conveyance of the speaker's thoughts and not an independent exercise of his lungs, was the prime idea of declama tion. And yet there is danger in too great an effort to attain naturalness when much of the higher power of declamation is sacrificed in the attempt. The contest was in every way worthy of the college, and will long be remembered as one of the most...