Word: systemizer
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...McCosh really wishes to curb the spirits of his students in an effective manner, we advise him not to bind them down by petty rules and regulations that are more fitted for a primary school than for a college; but to come to Cambridge, and study the system employed at Harvard; then let him go back and give the Princeton students the liberty and freedom that we have here. We think that then disturbances such as have troubled the quiet people of Princeton lately would become as rare as they are in Cambridge...
...question of the paternal versus the nonpaternal theory of college government seems to be buzzing in the bonnets of a few of our elderly contemporaries. President Porter started the discussion by coming out emphatically in support of the former system in his recent report; then the Nation took him up in an editorial article expounding the two theories and explaining how the former or non-paternal theory is essentially the European idea, and the only reasonable system for a true university, and how the latter theory, represented by Yale, is the native American idea, and can reasonably be only applied...
...order of college government, or rather non-government. Alma mater is laying down the office of policeman, and when young students are treated just as other members of society who transgress the law, the main incentive to college outlawry will be removed. At Cornell and other colleges where this system has been tried the results are for the better...
...last lecture to the freshman class in Greek Etymology, Prof. White took occasion to explain the experiment the faculty are making this year in the system of lectures and conferences for freshmen, and to comment upon its progress thus far. Undoubtedly, if more frequent opportunity of such a sort were taken by members of the faculty to explain and discuss with their classes, and especially with the freshman classes, the status and relations of the various courses and methods of work, a far more cordial and franker feeling would come to subsist between instructors and pupils, and a clearer notion...
...while the freshman course remains so arbitrary and unattractive in so many respects, and while its scope is so diffused and its arrangement so incoherent, it is to be expected that men will be driven to partially neglect certain subjects, and then to resort to the cramming system to save themselves at the end, whether the subjects be taught by lectures or by the most antiquated and iron-bound sort of recitations possible...