Word: standardness
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...gradually informed as to the results of the first examinations, while the annual rank-list gives the results for the year. Many men are studying with special objects in view, and in the conditions under which scholarships and honors are granted, we often find an entirely arbitrary standard of excellence. There are always men "on the line" who are exultant in case of success, but who suffer corresponding grief in case of failure; in both cases, by narrow margins, the marks are given out, and perhaps one finds another man has beaten him by one or one and one-half...
...examination as soon as they find themselves prepared for it, whether it be at the end of two, three, four or six years. Harvard should also be relieved from the entire burden and trouble of entrance examinations; a certificate of graduation from such preparatory schools as maintain the university standard, to be accepted as the qualification of the student for college - as the certificate from the gymnasium secures the student's entrance into the university in Germany. Those students, prepared by private tutors, would then have to pass the final examination of some high school or academy. Harvard, today, would...
...minor aims? The Nation, a paper which is one of the most intelligent friends of the university, has often commented upon the ill-organized and poorly paid instruction of the freshman year at Harvard. And even if the faculty does intend soon to remodel and raise the standard of our freshman course, that is no reason why it should be left so much at loose ends for the present. Although a fine-arts building and new dormitories would be acquisitions greatly to be desired, such things are by no means the chief aims of a genuine university, which is always...
...that a strict discipline and oversight of the students should be maintained by the college; now it is not to be asked for or desired. Furthermore, as to the elective system, "the choice of studies, as well as the abandonment of discipline, is the natural outgrowth of the raised standard of our better colleges, and it should go hand in hand with the upward extension of the college course." But, as this writer says, the great difficulty is to get parents and the heedless public to recognize the great difference between American universities like Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia, and colleges...
...believed that the German government will not adhere to any arrangement for the adoption of a bi-metallic standard, without the concurrence of England...