Word: greate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There have been a great many changes and additions to the courses of instruction. These have been already outlined in these columns. One of the most valuable of the additions is the course of six lectures on German literature given to the freshmen by assistant Professors Bartlett, Sheldon, Francke and von Jagemaun...
...Great improvements have been made this fall in the athletic field presented to Williams college by the Hon. Byron Weston. The grounds, a great improvement on the old ones, are sufficiently large to furnish two foot ball fields, and give an excellent chance for base ball. This fall the donor has built a track which, as far as advantages go, will put Williams on an equal footing with her rivals. The track is oblong in shape, fifteen feet wide and a sixth of a mile in circuit. It is very carefully underdrained and is composed of pin gravel covered...
...magazine, and leave room for only a communication and a poem, besides the editorial department and The Month. It may well be doubted whether the editors are justified imdevoting so many pages to a work not original nor written by an undergraduate, even though it is of so great intrinsic merit as Mr. Carpenter's translation. This article is a great honor to its contributor and to Harvard, but it should not have been allowed to occupy so great a portion of the Monthly's limited space...
...letter in the Nation on the teaching of pedagogy in our colleges, part of which we reprint in another column, deserves attention, as it deals with a subject of great and growing importance. Teaching as a profession is claiming a much broader field than ever before, and in the same proportion the need of a preparatory training is becoming more evident. Our high schools and academies are suffering much because many of their teachers, though college graduates, are utterly inexperienced, and must spend the first year or more in learning methods. This year of training may be a valuable...
...that many feel that our system of religion is not apt to work for, the best interests of the students; that the popular impression is that Harvard influences are not of the best. He spoke merely as an outsider, and as one who knew very little but felt a great interest. He hoped that the students would individually do all in their power to correct these impressions of Harvard. Rev. Phillips Brooks then addressed the meeting at length. He dwelt upon the difficulty which a university offers of forming large circles of acquaintances; men tend to collect into small groups...