Word: frequenters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Prof. Lanciani, in his lecturing tour in this country, has suffered some $100 loss from the breaking of lantern slides and the like, caused by frequent packings and unpackings and the havoc of traveling...
...good. The idea is wise, is it practicable? Few could desire more sincerely than I a more ready interchange of thought, a more frequent and perfect contact of professors with students; because the influence of such matured men on our uncrystallized character could not but be good, and also because I think we, the undergraduates, are rather inclined to let matters take their course, do not see fully or fully appreciate the far-reaching fore sight and careful wisdom that is changing Harvard from college to university, and are rather passive, not caring to co-operate very enthusiastically with...
...unfit, if he is not spoiled, I will fit him." At Harvard, methods of furnishing information are pretty fully developed. In May an elective paphlet is issued, which announces everything that is to be taught in the college during the following year. Consultations with instructors about all courses are frequent. That most effective means of distributing information, the talk of students, goes on unceasingly, With time, perhaps, means may be devised for informing a student more largely what he is choosing. The fullest information is desirable. And now granting that a student has started with good intentions and is well...
...mean for an instant to give color to the charge, which would be absurd if it were not so frequent, that money is a recognized standard of social position at Harvard, that men of limited means are deliberately excluded from any college society, or that a man is ever elected to one simply because he is rich, much as certain public men are elected to the Senate. A man who has nothing but money to recommend him is much more surely put in unenviably conspicuous solitude at Harvard than in most parts of the world...
...relief this custom proves when the subjects for examination require extended preparation. It is almost impossible for a man to do himself justice in any one course, when he is forced by the enormous work necessary for a satisfactory preparation in four. Again, there can be little doubt that frequent and thorough reviews are highly beneficial in fixing a subject firmly. The hurry and superficial work of the period of the mid-years has become proverbial. Anything which serves to relieve both students and instructors at that time cannot be too highly praised...