Word: houres
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...there then no remedy for these evils? I think there is. The hour examinations are too valuable to be given up, but why should they not be so arranged as to secure us from having more than two in one week, or if that should be impossible, why should not recitations be suspended while the examinations prevail...
...annoyance and distraction consequent on trying to study for several examinations while also preparing several recitations a day in other studies are very great; and if this is true of real one-hour examinations, much more must it be true when they are so arranged as to amount to two hours in length, and are of an inquisitorial severity suggestive of the annuals...
...division in which you recite you may divide the men into two comprehensive classes, - men who study, and men who don't. Both have their good points and their bad ones. But by all means the most tiresome person is the man who asks questions. Twenty times in the hour he will call out, "Mr. -, I don't see how two and two make four," or, "Please explain the passage on page 63, fifth line from the top." He is entirely regardless of the feelings either of his classmates or of the instructor, whom he interrupts without compunction. One would...
...this time of year, when the probabilities for the day are falling temperature, snow, and hour-examinations, I am much struck with the altered demeanor of my classmates (I am in the latter half of my course, but will not commit myself so far as to say that I am a Junior), - with their altered demeanor, I say, in regard to those little soirees in U. E. R. compared with the nervous dread with which they anticipated their first examinations within these sacred walls. Now they merely express astonishment at the old-fashioned notions of a professor, who, wishing...
...system of hour examinations has been lately adopted by a large number of instructors. The system in itself is excellent; it forces upon one's notice the little shortcomings under which he is laboring, enables him to see where he is ignorant when he should be wise, and in various ways removes stumbling-blocks over which he would otherwise fall at the Semiannuals and the Annuals. These short examinations make easier the work of both instructors and students and as they are for the advantage of both, it seems to us that they should be arranged with some reference...