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...Civil Service Examinations; (6) young men or women in stores or shops, or on farms, who are desirous to learn, but cannot leave their labor to attend school; and, finally, persons in any walk of life, who would gladly take up some study for its own sake...
First freshman (after Harvard's victory over Wesleyan): "Say, old man, I feel too big for this college to hold me." Second freshman, "For heaven's sake don't tell anybody." Fact...
...with the best results of scholarship. The weeks allotted to actual work in the present academic year of the colleges are too few to warrant the ever-recurring interruptions. Athletic sports are admirable when engaged in, as means to health and physical vigor. but when pursued for their own sake, or as a preparation for intercollegiate contests to which college duties are to be subordinated, the result cannot fail to be mischievous...
...easy to understand how the mistake has been made. Naturally each college has an ambition to raise its standard. Each professor for his own reputation's sake seeks to 'bring up' his branch of study. Whether the boy has physical strength or mental capacity to bear the strain put upon him is not considered. If not, let him go. The standard of work required is set by the capacity of the abnormally gifted or toughest student. Now the fact is that the mass of pupils in any school are not particularly clever nor physically strong. But they, too, have their...
...writer comes to the conclusion that "the idea of the American college, the idea of orderly training in fundamental branches of learning, partly for the sake of storing the mind with useful information, partly for the development of physical, mental and moral training, seems to stand as firm as ever;" and that "the increase of wealth, the progress of science, and the advancement of religious freedom, though temporary disturbing agencies, are likely to be factors of permanent good...