Word: blackboard
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...disposal, to be spent in any way they saw fit, - setting aside a certain sum for a new dormitory (rooms to be obtained for the paltry sum of $500 and upward), or else a new recitation hall (to be provided with wooden benches, candles, shutters, cold draughts, one small blackboard for each room, and all other modern improvements). The residue of the legacy was at their disposal...
...present themselves instruction will begin at the professor's house. Five hours' work a day - two with the instructor, and three outside - will be required, and the method of teaching is the same as that used by Professor Sauveur in teaching French. The instructor writes a character upon the blackboard, and the student pronounces it after him until it is firmly fixed. Great delicacy of ear and eye is required, and much mechanical drudgery must be endured. Patience is the first requisite. No interpreter is needed until some advance has been made, and even then Sir Thomas Wade's Progressive...
DURING the summer extensive improvements have been made on the college buildings, viz. a new handle has been put on one of the doors of University, and a new blackboard eraser has been purchased...
...last Monday, a serious and unnecessary hindrance stood in the way of the best possible work. Instead of furnishing printed papers, - a custom which, if not required by regulation, is certainly enjoined by the unwritten law of the College, - the Professor chose to have the questions inscribed on the blackboard, as is done for boys at schools. Now the eyes of many of us are not in the best condition in the season of the Semiannuals, and deciphering hieroglyphics at a time when every moment was precious proved a painful and irritating task. The Faculty have succeeded this year...
...then, how I trembled when I entered Harvard Hall, and how my knees shook together at the sight of some figures on the blackboard which looked to me like all the diagrams in my geometry crammed into one. How nervously I laughed when a then unknown gentleman, while explaining the programme of the unhappy days, made a joke. How I rushed on the first opportunity to the fresh air, and sought for consolation in discussing the point of the joke with a friend in misery, until a live Sophomore whom we had the honor of knowing came up and gave...