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...Sincerbeaux '02, of Moravia, N. Y., was prepared for college at the Moravia High School and State Normal School at Oneonta, N. Y. In the trials for the present debate he won the Thacher Prize of $75.00. He was captain of one division of the Sophomore Wigwam...
...education adapted to the special needs and briefer educational careers of non-collegiate pupils of both sexes. Thus the enthusiastic support of our public high schools as we know them today was ultimately brought about during the years from 1826 to the present time. Although this country, through the state of Massachusetts, was very early committed to the maintenance of secondary schools supported partly or wholly by taxes, it took nearly two hundred years before the new conception of the scope and meaning of public secondary education had been evolved. This new conception was a share in the elements...
...sent, might be somewhat biased by a mistaken sense of loyalty to a system to which the college is thoroughly committed, and that their replies might therefore be somewhat partisan. Furthermore, thought all replies are considered confidential, it is thought that some men will not be willing to state frankly the reasons which governed their choice. The graduates, by virtue of their maturity and experience, should be able to estimate the influence of the elective system on their own educational development justly and impartially, and accordingly their aid is asked...
Each graduate is asked to state his opinion as to the benefit or harm resulting from the influence of the elective system in his case, and to answer several more specific questions,--as to the number of courses taken to evade hard work; the effect of the system on strenuousness of application; the opinion of the writer regarding prescribed studies in schools and colleges, and what the studies thus prescribed should be. If the questions meet with general and intelligent response the result will, it is believed, be of great importance in the whole matter of American education...
...abrogated but fulfilled, not enforced literally but with a spiritual meaning and sanction. In this sense St. Paul says "We do not destroy the law through faith, yea we establish the law;" and this may be traced out in his Epistles. He wished to build up a Christian social state, beginning with the family, a new and spiritual community...