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William Trufant Foster. Should Students Study?
Should Students Study?
Table of Contents
Should Students Study?
Chapter I. College Life
Chapter II. Differences—East and West
Chapter III. College Life and College Studies
Chapter IV. Promise and Performance
Chapter V. Success in Studies and in Life
Chapter VI. Genius as a Substitute for Study
Chapter VII. Thinking by Proxy
Chapter VIII. Should Specialists Specialize?
Chapter IX. Ultimately Practical Studies
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William Trufant Foster
Published by Good Press, 2020
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The Respectable Grade of Mediocrity
Whatever we may think of the "Old Grad's" remarks, the idea does prevail in many a college that the most important enterprises are found in the side-shows, conducted by the students themselves, while the faculty present more or less buncombe performances in the main tent. Woodrow Wilson said something to this effect before he gave up trying to make boys take their studies seriously in favor of an easier job. Dean Fine said to the alumni of Princeton University: "The typical boy entering a college like Princeton in these days is much more vitally interested in other boys and in sports than in books. To him the lure of college is not in its studies, but in its life." Professor Churchman of Clark College regards success in athletics and the social life of the college as "the honest ambition of an appalling proportion of fathers and mothers who are sending their sons to fashionable colleges, in the same spirit that accompanies their daughters to fashionable finishing-schools." One father, whose son triumphed on the gridiron and failed in his studies, said to the dean of Harvard College, "My son's life has been just what I wanted it to be."
