Word: progressism
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...balue which, being partial, is unsatisfactory; in the case of the vast multitude it ends in irremediable waste. To myself, trained in the system for years, and training others in it for years being one of those who succeeded in it, if that amount of progress which has been thought worthy of high classical honors in two university may be called success-influenced, therefore, by every conceivable prejudice of authority, experience and personal vanity in its favor. I can only give my emphatic conclusion that every year the practice of it appears to me increasingly deplorable, and the theory...
...surprised to see Progress retailing such silly talk as the following : "There is a street-car conductor in Chicago who is a college graduate, and can also converse in all the modern languages. He might, you know, be a college graduate and still be ignorant of French, German, etc. This conductor (and he is not, it would be safe to wager, the only one of his kind in the country) does not agree that his education has been of important service to him in his struggle for existence. When in need it did not secure for him a better place...
...that he is governor of the state of Massachusetts, let him receive it, but let the degree be conferred upon the man and not upon the office." And that is how it should be. To hand it out according to any other reasoning destroys whatever worth it may possess. [Progress...
...attend them. The instructors have been selected without regard to the institutions with which they have been connected ; but merely for their special qualifications. Every student will be required to pass an examination by correspondence given at intervals, so that in this way the instructor can ascertain the progress of each student...
...Hamlin really cares nothing about investigating the effect of diet upon his pupils, but that his object in setting up a collegiate weighing-machine is to substitute weighing for the old-fashioned methods of examination. The weighing-machine will afford, in some respects, a fair test of the progress which the students have made in the higher studies-such as base ball and rowing-and Dr. Hamlin may intend to assign collegiate honors to the students who succeed in training themselves down to the best possible weight. There is a good deal that is plausible in this view...