Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Nassau Lit. has added a new department to its columns called "Books." This contains a careful review of many new books of general interest...
...encouraging to note the general abandonment of exact numerical values for the examination returns in many courses. The recitation work, attendance, etc., of the half year are especially in a number of freshman courses, being carefully included in the returns, and the whole given out in terms of "excellent," "good," or "bad," as the case may be. While our marking system as a whole is in a somewhat chaotic state, and while our examinations are frequently valueless in the determination of work done, these attempts can be of only limited importance, but they show the spirit which is working...
...Batchelder will not be a contestant for the general excellence prize in the winter meetings this year...
...following significant fact brought to our attention by the last Nation. Mr. Gerard B. Finch, the new law lecturer at Cambridge, England, has adopted Prof. Langdell's method of lecturing by cases. In his inaugural address he spoke in hearty terms of this method, and of the general excellence of the Harvard Law School. A short extract from this address will be of interest to our readers...
...campaign that are important. 1. The topography of the field of action. 2. Purposes of campaign. 3. The results. The first was carefully shown upon the blackboard, and the latter two were so ably discussed that the listener came to agree with the lecturer, that Jackson was a great general and that if it were not for his timely strategy, drawing as it did Gen. McClellan's troops from advancing upon Richmond, the Confederacy would have certainly succumbed sooner than...