Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Sargent then proceeds to explain the causes for the absence of enthusiasm in most institutions of learning. He attributes this in great part to either poor gymnasia or inefficient instructors. His account of an average gymnasium is very amusing and well worth reading. He also deprecates "the lack of a suitable man, with sufficient authority, at the head of the department - a man who is a college graduate, a practical gymnast, and an educated physician...
...function would be treacherously assistive, but conservatively explicative. I remember how at the admission examination they gave me Pierce's table of logarithms, which was entirely different from old six-place table I had used. I could do nothing with it, and so I asked a proctor to explain it. I was very much shocked when he explained to me that he knew no more about it than I did. Now we often find in the papers ambiguities and difficulties which we did not perceive while the professor was present, and it would be extremely appropriate to appoint a scientific...
...probably not satisfied that Harvard has made due reparation in sending a challenge without an accompanying apology. They therefore deem it unworthy of our dignity to row the Cambridge crew, and are loath to countenance the race by their support. For the benefit of these we shall attempt to explain matters. Columbia holds one view of the late difficulty, Harvard another. We hold that the Harvard crew and the boat club, by its subsequent action, were entirely in the wrong, and that our men could not have acted otherwise than they did. Harvard claims that there existed merely a misunderstanding...
...gentleman and one a Connecticut rough." The story did not originate at Harvard; its first appearance was in the Yale Record. To attribute its authorship to Harvard is to impute to her a spirit of discourtesy and arrogance which we are sure she has never yet exhibited. To explain the design of the Record in publishing the story we are unable; we give it the credit, however, of ingenuous and honorable motives. To claim the item as a Harvard "sneer" is only one more of the innumerable slanders upon this college by the public press, about which we have...
...become a conference. The student meets his instructor, not because he is obliged to, but because he can master his subject better with his help. The instructor often does the reciting himself, expounding and illustrating his subject, and occasionally calling on some member of the class to read or explain. In this way ground is rapidly traversed and everybody's time saved...