Word: scholasticism
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The idea of divisionals I like. They gather together the loose threads of an education, and summarize one's four years in a definite way. They give one a feeling that he is facing the world not with bits of knowledge of many things, but with some general acquaintance of...
"The superior learning of a Ph.D.," continued Father Sill," is wasted on the ears of bored Freshmen; only through talented and, above all, enthusiastic teachers, can their interest be properly aroused. Obviously, a teacher must know his subject, and the more he knows about it, the better, other things being...
Statistics released by University Hall yesterday offer the first definite report on the trend of undergraduate grades during the present year. Confirming a general opinion that the scholastic average has been much higher than last year, the present proof that in comparison with midyear grades last year, the number of...
Superficially, the suggestion is attractive. Freed from enervating periods with uninterested students, tutors could preserve their energies for more worthy men. Wealthy "gentlemen," unhampered by exacting requirements, would probably be attracted to a new dilettante paradise; expensive suites would be permanently filled and financial worries ended. But the exclusion of...
Under present conditions, ambitions students are afforded the opportunity for a thorough education, while the lectsurely man finds little difficulty in ekeing out the required minimum marks. Despite the attractiveness of added remuneration from a wealthy upper stratum those who suggest panaceas for stricken budgets should consider that a university...