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...knowledge into subjects, and the student takes five at a time. I hope that, we are going to discontinue the attempt of studying a number of subjects, and study a civilization in all its aspects at the same time. I should like to get a group of Freshmen and acquaint them with Greek civilization as a whole; not separate subjects, but have a group of students who want to know the way of understanding a life and then take a great episode in human life and see what it looks like as a whole, and see if they can understand...
...wonder whether the editor has taken the trouble to acquaint himself with the facts before insulting many of his most consistent readers...
...purpose of the gathering was to acquaint the new proctors with the nature of their duties and to give the old ones an opportunity to make suggestions...
...essence, an accomplished fact at Antioch College, Ohio, where an experiment in cooperative education is being worked out. The Committee recommends a "general survey course, presenting, without laboratory work, the more important principles of astronomy, geology, physics, chemistry, zoology. It should be the purpose of the course to acquaint students with the scientific point of view, and give them a general understanding of the laws which govern the external world in which they live." Antioch has realized this need in modern education to the extent of requiring for a degree courses in Chemistry, Physics, Biology, and "Earth Science" (which includes...
...ignorance the Freshmen were in no position properly to choose a field of concentration before their Sophomore year. It was in order partially to remove the cause of this complaint that it was decided to make all students in the course meet once a week for lectures which would acquaint them not only with important individual scholars and lecturers but with the aims of the departments of the University...