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...study in college are taught by a system of instruction from which the students' abilities to profit rests almost wholly upon his success in getting good notes at lectures, is it not all important that no expedient be left untried which can possibly aid him in this very vital part of his work? In a word, this note-taking, if I may be permitted the expression, is the wholesale industry of the college, and with this fact in view, I do not think any single addition to the present curriculum of electives would so materially increase the average standard...
...honor. If any form of unfairness, or meanness is tolerated in them, they become sources of wide-spreading moral corruption. If students do not find their sense of honor cultivated and refined by their college life, they may be sure that their education is failing at its most vital point...
...other profession in which such active, accurate thought, so body a command of resources, and so clear a method of exposition are needed. The faculty of late have been devoting their valuable time to the obstruction of athletics: would they mind considering a subject that is of vital importance to the proper education of a class of men hither-to unnoticed...
Some of the speeches made at the dinner of the New-York Harvard Club touching as they do upon vital topics connected with the university, should interest all. The first gentlemen introduced by the president of the club, Mr. Charles C. Beaman, was President Eliot, who spoke of Harvard substantially as follows...
This difference between a representative and deliberative organization is a vital one, and the committee would be of an entirely different nature, according as it were created with one or the other characteristic. The conference yesterday deliberated carefully, we know, before it decided in this matter. Its decision, therefore, is probably the right...