Word: actually
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...under Prof. Hill, are offered. In both courses daily theme work is done. In addition to these, the college offers two most excellent courses for training in speaking; one, English 9, under Mr. Jones, for the technicalities of the art, and the other, English 6, under different instructors, for actual practice. These are all electives which supplement the regular theme and forensic work done by the different classes. If thoughtfully and judiciously chosen, they can prepare a man most thoroughly for the real work of life...
...their heads, till the page before them becomes a blur, and then they either faint, - or stay away. Seriously, this ought to be remedied; the complaint has been made so often before that it should be listened to. Men are constantly in danger of severe headaches if not of actual sunstroke from this cause. The rays of the sun coming on a June day through a pane of glass, falling upon an unprotected head or neck beneath, and playing over its surface for an hour, is excessively painful, if not dangerous. Then, the glare caused by this same cause...
...rush for his life from his blazing building. He trains himself, therefore, for the inevitable crisis by getting out-of-doors as soon as possible at the sound of the alarm bells. Moreover, he does not allow his training to stop at this point, he rushes headlong to the actual scene of the conflagration, and there studies carefully and intelligently the methods employed in saving life and property, not knowing how soon he may be called upon in person to put them into operation. But, - and in all seriousness, - the undergraduates know perfectly well that there is constant danger...
...taught right through the school course for two hours a week, excepting in some gymnasia, where the last two years are devoted to other subjects. In the preliminary stage of instruction, no text book is used except by the teacher; the pupils are encouraged to obtain their ideas from actual observation and practice. They are told in a more or less general way about the cardinal points and the course of the sun and earth in the heavens. A mastery of this subject is given them, not by forcing them to commit the compass card to memory, but by telling...
...hundred and fifty; but all three agreed only upon six cases. Moreover, it is very probable that had those who were inspecting the lists known the individual needs of each man, the selections of study might not have seemed so unintelligible. So when we compare the few instances of actual abuse of the elective system with the amount of good which it can and has done, the showing for it is very favorable. Then, too, it is well to remember that the purely theoretical arguments against it are flatly contradicted by real facts...