Word: aims
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...object of the Shakspere club to teach the dramatic art to its members, and it was with this object in view that the performance of the play was decided on. An assignment of the parts in the customary manner, however, would defeat this aim. A few men would monopolize the important roles, and the rest would have so little to do that their parts would be of but little profit to them. By the plan of distribution that is adopted, this objection is as far as possible done away with. The strongest cast is not brought out in this...
...marking adopted by the different instructors. It is a fact that some of the best courses in college are avoided just because the instructors are " hard markers," -avoided, not only by men who are satisfied with a mark of forty or fifty per cent, but by men who aim at, who in many cases must get ninety. As soon as any sort of equality in the marking standard is established, we will not be constantly hearing the complaint that students are too often slaves to their scholarships. Surely under the present state of things, students are not blamable for their...
...original sources of all kinds, may be made for the purpose of settling disputed points, or for discovery of unknown matter. The great difficulty instructors at Harvard feel in applying the method of investigation is the lack of preparation of the students when entering college. Our preparatory schools aim not to fit students for study at a University, but merely to enable them to pass the entrance examinations. Consequently the work at Harvard is often more elementary than the instructors would desire...
...Taussig, each have, we understand, a book in preparation. Apart from the natural pride we feel in seeing these gentlemen appear in print, we are gratified over this literary activity because of the practical benefits we expect will accrue therefrom to Harvard. It is rightly the constant end and aim of this university to seek to increase the proportion of workers among its students. Some drones there must be here, of course, so long as the university is poor; for the drones play as important a part as anyone else in the economy of the institution. The workers, however...
...wish to appear blind to the interests of any one department of the university. We would be glad to hear that outside parties had taken the matter in hand and had furnished the necessary amount. But we feel that any change in the library which does not aim to alleviate its present comparative uselessness, is entirely uncalled for and slightly premature. If the necessary money is furnished, it could not be put to a better use than by improving the University library building where the donated books could be most safely, economically, and usefully preserved. The question of improvements...