Word: forgets
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...peculiarly happy one that we are led to ask why it cannot be adopted in other courses. Most instructors at the beginning of the year make a general, and sometimes rather vague announcement of the methods they intend to pursue in conducting their courses, but the men soon forget what has been told them, and there is always a feeling of uncertainty about what is going to take place in one's course, which, to say the least, is annoying...
...thirds of the standard value to that student. The author of "Our Ranking System" thus declares himself as a champion of a "broad education." Let him be this if he will, but he must not attempt to make "reforms" which shall do injustice to the specialist, nor should he forget that the various courses in the several branches of knowledge are arranged in a sequence of progression, and that a student is not expected to enter a higher course, until he has prepared for it by taking those which come before. If he should take the higher first and then...
...Francisco Occident is disturbed by the gift of $50,000 by a Californian to Yale College, and says that people who have made their money in the new Pacific States should not forget their debt to their Western home and should provide educational advantages there similar to those now enjoyed in the East...
...them to win the race next June when they shall have become fully practised in his method of rowing. Much interest and enthusiasm is shown by the men. Several of them during the Christmas recess visited Philadelphia, the home of Captain Cook, trying hard, under his personal instruction, to forget the disastrous stroke used last year. Part of the plan to overcome the old fault has been to make the crews row on stationary seats to rid them of the overlong slides necessary before this change to the '73 stroke. These stationary seats have now given place to short slides...
Reviewing is useful to show what a vast amount a man can forget in a minimum time. For this purpose examinations are, perhaps, even more effective. [Yale Record...