Word: asking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...have had occasion to blame men in large courses for taking up time by asking questions of instructors; in small courses, where questions and discussions are perfectly in order, men may be justly blamed for not asking questions. It is surprising, in some of the smaller courses in economices and philosophy for instance, to see how few men take an active part in the discussions. The courses meet day after day and just about the same men do the talking each time. This is an unfortunate thing, for the method of free discussion is the ideal method of instruction. Students...
...four dollars and a half for the Brunswick fund from table 50 at Memorial Hall. This suggests a new method of collecting money which may be very profitably adopted at all the tables. If one man at each table will appoint himself treasurer of that table and personally ask every man sitting with him, the subscription will be very much larger and more general. Money collected in this way may be left in the subscription box in the Hall in a marked envelope or brought to the CRIMSON office...
...that he and his friends leave doubts and criticism for the past and take up hope and enthusiasm for the future. If we keep speaking of this, as we have every present intention of doing, it will be from the sincerest motive of interest; we ask the students to see if it is reasonable and then to join us in this spirit of victory...
...various signs,-the regular theme card is not enough. Jesting aside, it does not put a man in an amiable or teachable frame of mind to be thus checked in his work by an apparently unnecessary carelessness on the part of instructors. Certainly it is but fair to ask the English instructors to write a reasonably readable hand...
...great deal of the pleasure and profit of the course. Our attention has been called to the fact that there are men in some of the philosophy and economics courses, where the matter in hand is apt to be abstruse, who repeatedly keep the class waiting while they ask questions about little technicalities which are entirely subordinate. Of course questions are all right in their place, and questions of a general character are certainly in place during a recitation or lecture. But when a man asks about little points which interest him alone, his thirst for knowledge is rendering...