Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...numerous courses and ample opportunities exist for the study of Arabic and Semetic languages a study of fully as great scholarly interest should be so much more restricted. The intelligent and well directed study of all periods of our history in detail can best beget a reasonable patriotism, and help to promote among educated men wise political counsels and disinterested citizenship. And in no subject is the direction of scholarly teachers through well-planed courses so much needed as in the tentative and as yet almost unwritten subject of American history. It is therefore greatly to be hoped that next...
...course, go to Harvard or Yale or London or Paris for the education they sought and ought to have; so he had determined to enable them to secure it at home. Their grandfathers had made his fortune; it was his duty as well as his pleasure to help the grandsons...
...books which might appear to be borrowed from others are really original with him. He was as eccentric in his teaching as in everything else that he did. He had much of the Socratic way of asking questions to show a pupil his ignorance, and then leaving him to help himself as best he could. He often asked a question, especially if a visitor was in his classroom, merely to open the way for a joke or a sarcasm. He once passed a question about a peculiar Greek accent entirely round a class, eliciting Various crude guesses, and then dryly...
...close of every examination time one cannot help a feeling of dissatisfaction with the process by which the work a man may have done or left undone during the term is determined. It cannot but be unsatisfactory in almost every way. But it is particularly of the system of "cramming," now so much in vogue and which our examination system so carefully nurtures, that we wish to speak. It is absolutely certain, as things are here at present, that certain men will be absent from as many recitations as they dare, and will do little if any work on their...
...successors to the Harvard Echo, we have every now and then received matter addressed to it, but. not until yesterday were we made aware that it had female contributors. Then we are received a letter from the founder of a "School of Industrial Art for Women," asking for the help of our late contemporary "so far as to publish the whole or any part of the enclosed article, that all women among your contributors, needing help. (and I doubt not there are many) may know of this opportunity and avail themselves of it." We thoroughly appreciate the efforts...