Word: conducted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...trouble with these large colleges is that the bulk of the instruction is given by mere tutors. The famous professors at these places, whose names adorn the college catalogues, do not lecture more than once or twice a day, perhaps only two or three times a week, and never conduct any of the regular class work which forms the backbone of a good college course. Even Harvard cannot keep as good a corps of instructors as we have at Rochester, because with all her wealth, her classes are too many and too large to admit of approved ability and experience...
...this is its first year, the college is composed entirely of freshmen, about forty in number. There are thirteen instructors, of whom there are women. The president, Dr. Rhoads, believes in allowing the students to regulate their own conduct, and as yet has drawn up no "rules and regulations" respecting their conduct, so that all exercises, including chapel, are voluntary. So far this arrangement has worked very well and the faculty now believe that they will not find it necessary to resort to the more customary, but less ideal methods of college government...
Resolved, That in his loss we mourn a man of good natural talents and handsome acquirements, conciliating in his manners, generous and benevolent in his disposition, and amiable in the whole tenor of his conduct...
Professor Toy will conduct prayer until February 28th...
...cultivated. The art of self-defence, while it gives a person a happy confidence as an athlete, does not destroy the instincts of the gentleman, but engenders on the contrary equanimity of temper. Your paper fears also that the enjoyment of a special teacher in sparring would, if the conduct of the faculty were at all consistent, necessitate a special master of fencing and dancing. Here you commit a mistake; sparring is a mode of defence which has a national character, as fencing has in Germany, and in the immediate vicinity of the college it is practiced at the approach...