Word: thoroughly
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...vague term, at best; and certainly the addition, English, does not suggest any knowledge, however limited, of Anglo-Saxon. If Graduate Course 7, and possibly 8 or 9, could be added to the list, and another course in Literature given, there might be some satisfaction in studying English as thoroughly as any other language, with a prospect of having such study recognized as at least equal to the labors of students of the classics. We cannot help thinking that it is a grave mistake not to give to the English language and literature a foremost place in our curriculum...
...dress, and can retail all the latest Boston scandal, and am considered to be one of the best card-players in the College. There, sir, read that list through, and see if I am not on the road to become what every decent student wants to be, - a thorough man of the world...
...changing from one of our many studies to another, and in getting under way in that, would be much lessened by reducing the number of hours of required work, as that would almost necessarily diminish the number of subjects, and thus the amount learned would be greater and more thorough, although not quite so diverse as at present. We therefore add our strongest wishes of success to the petitioners and only hope that if they succeed, the instructors opposed to the change will not think it necessary to make their courses more difficult than at present...
...take its place there. Mr. Riddle has already begun the no small task of committing the many hundred lines which fall to Oedipus. It is very gratifying that such an undertaking should have been begun under so good auspices, and with so much enthusiasm. It should have the thorough commendation of all lovers of the classics, and it cannot fail to add to Harvard's reputation as a progressive institution...
...system as it now stands is very deficient. Even after the first year there are no steps taken to secure a thorough English education for the students. Sophomore rhetoric increases rather than diminishes the evil, because the least attractive side of the study is presented. We ought rather to read good English than attempt to correct bad; and rhetoric, naturally connected with composition, is, by the present system, entirely divorced from it. Recitations in rhetoric are attended, themes are written; but what connection between the two exists in the mind of the student? Our English electives, too, are deficient...