Word: fairness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...English. It was formerly supposed that every child would learn to speak correctly and would become well acquainted with English literature by contact with English speaking people and by such reading as he did voluntarily. This was a mistaken idea. It is now changed and English holds a fair position in almost all high schools and an excellent position in all good colleges. Up to within a few years ago, and even now to a large extent, the study of education was viewed in the same way. It was thought that the only education necessary for a teacher...
...work which is being done by Professor Hanus in the University is comparatively unknown and yet it represents a tendency of educational activity which bids fair to become much augmented in the future. Professor Hanus's courses are concerned with the best methods for imparting knowledge to others rather than for acquiring knowledge for one's self. The importance of attention to this subject he will explain in his lecture tonight...
Many of the charts and photographs which formed part of Harvard's exhibit at the World's Fair have been placed in the gymnasium. This has made necessary a new arrangement of the trophies in the room assigned to them, for not only have the walls in the entry leading to the Trophy Room been covered by the World's Fair exhibit, but the walls of the Trophy Room itself have yielded space for this exhibit. Pictures have been grouped and put closer together. Perhaps the best improvement is in the arrangement of the team photographs. Those of the Mott...
...games committee of the H. A. A. request all men interested in wrestling to meet in the trophy room of the gymnasium tonight at 7 o'clock. At the first meeting a fair number of men appeared, but nothing was done about arranging a time for instruction. Tonight Mr. Lathrop will appoint hours at which the men are to work. The committee hope for the presence of every man who cares for wrestling, whether or not he responded to the other call...
Wesleyan has purchased the mathematical models in the German University exhibit at the World's Fair...