Word: callings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...instructors, Greek and French, wanted for N. E. Preparatory School. Small salary and living expenses. Call or address, Eastern Teachers Institute, 110 Tremont street, Boston...
Anyone wishing to dispose of two or more Tree or memorial Hall tickets will please call at 42 Brattle street, between 7 and 8 o'clock...
Wanted, a tutor in Eng. IX. Call at 22 Beck...
...ideal of sound learning and disinterested study, and checking the present Chinese current of popular belief, have degraded into mere examining machines. In the place of the calm pursuit of knowledge and the encouragement of original research, we have the hot competition of slaving undergraduates-for students we cannot call them,-who are taught that learning is of no value except in so far as it brings profit to themselves. Many of the mischievours results of the examination-system at these "ancient seats of learning," though now of cram, have already been noticed, and they may be summed up under...
...they occur. Whatever system of government it may adopt, it is responsible to the citizens of Cambridge on the one hand, and to the Corporation of the college on the other; and whatever votes it may pass, votes of prehibition or of "laissez-faire," the town-people will rightly call it to account for nocturnal uproars, and the Corporation will rightly call it to account for damage to college property or to the beauty of the yard. Every member of the faculty shares this responsibility, and I for one, eager as I was to see this vote passed, should...