Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...doubt, when he considers that they are the only means of communication between such conferences and the student body, unless, perchance, the conference should go to the expense of printing official bulletins and distributing them to each student. That scholarship should also be well represented is not hard to explain. There are many questions and points involving class standing, scholarships, courses, etc., which would be much better understood and adapted to present needs if a closer intimacy existed between faculty and students. A good example of the propriety of having scholarship represented, is the case of the Princeton ranking system...
...first place we doubt the advisability of elementary instruction in any language being given by native teachers; it is impossible for them to appreciate the difficulties which the learner encounters, and they are therefore apt to give long lessons, and to fail to explain what are really the difficult idioms and constructions. Of the courses open to Sophomores, German I is intended to give some practice in writing and speaking the language as well as in translating it. The instructor has worked hard and conscientiously, but has failed to arouse enthusiasm on account of the unfortunate choice of text-books...
...have been asked to print the following letter from Prof. Ames to the Co-operative society. The letter will explain itself, and is worthy the attention of all students, whether they belong to the society...
...would not be endured here. We almost wonder that they meet with favor anywhere. An explanation is found, perhaps, in the fact that in other colleges which are smaller, the students are better acquainted and generally more intimate. Only on the score of great familiarity and intimacy can we explain the liberty so often taken in getting off these "grinds." Another reason possibly why such a publication as the Aegis is successful in the smaller colleges, is that the smaller colleges have fewer papers, certainly nothing like the Harvard Lampoon, and therefore supply the need in another way. College...
...individual work; the other offers the problem of making eight men do at the same time each his best individually, and altogether their best collectively-making eight men work like eight men, and like one machine. The conditions are wholly different. Consider, gentlemen, what you are doing, and also explain the peculiar distinction you make between a professional (!) such as Mr. Bancroft, and a paid coach, such as Mr. Lathrop! Perhaps in the past the coach may have been allowed to influence or decide questions foreign to his duties as coach. But that is no reason why we no longer...