Word: accomplishments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Sanders Theatre was well filled last evening by an audience of the best people of Cambridge and many students from the college. Mr. Longfellow, after giving a short account of the work Senator Dawes is now trying to accomplish in Congress, introduced Walter Baptiste, an Indian of the Sac and Fox tribe, who spoke on "What will you do with the Indian." He gave a vivid picture of life in Dacotah and spoke of the influence for good which graduates of such schools as the Hampton Institute are exerting on their own people. He appealed for more education...
...must come also the much talked of "shack." Any measures, which the Tennis Association could adopt, to rid the college grounds of this nuisance as far as possible, would be most welcome to the college. Players should be cautious about encouraging the presence of muckers. A little care will accomplish good results...
...hour examinations for the regular three hour examination, is in reality deprived of one hour's time while expected to cover the same work required in a three hour examination. Two examinations of ninety minutes, or one examination of one hour and another lasting two hours would accomplish the work more equally, while the plan would possess all the recommendations which are urged in defence of two examinations instead...
...discontinued, and that the reasons are perfectly satisfactory both from the standpoint of convenience upon which our correspondent laid great stress, and also from the more scholarly standpoint of improvement in sophomore theme work. In the first particular the machinery involved was too cumbersome, and was ill-fitted to accomplish the purpose for which it was employed, - to provoke good critical work carefully done. In the second particular the practice is one which distinctly does not tend to improve the student's style. Improvement of style is not to be attained by a perusal of laborious, crude, and often abortive...
...college man who has not pursued the study of law. It is to meet such a defect in college training, as the lack of a knowledge of law, that books like "Every Man His Own Lawyer," and "Woman Before the Law" have been written, - books that must fail to accomplish their end. A knowledge of common law to be valuable must be gained from practical sources. A competent and thorough instructor, the very best that could be procured, who would devote his interest to such a course might make it the most popular, perhaps, of all the college courses...