Word: hourly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...customary, we believe, for the Professors in some of the departments to give but one hour to the instruction of the members of two different electives. We do not wish to question the wisdom of this method in the particular cases that we have in mind; there may be reasons strong enough to justify its adoption. On general principles, however, the system is not a good one. In the first place the student gets but half an hour of instruction, instead of the full hour, which, when he took the course, he had every reason to suppose he would receive...
...hour when Arctus, weary...
PUNCTUALITY is not among the virtues of the Harvard student, if we may judge from the indications given at the taking of the various groups by Mr. Pach. Men would come sauntering into the studio half an hour late, and ask, with an innocent air, whether it was not almost time for the picture to be taken. Such men, that is, those of them who knew that their presence was necessary, seemed to forget that they were delaying, not merely their own group, but all the others that followed. It is not necessary for us to enlarge upon the advantages...
...compel Seniors to observe the rule which forbids any conflict of hours in the choice of electives seems to be in direct opposition to the principles of voluntary recitation; for surely, if a student is qualified to decide whether he will attend recitations, he is also qualified to decide whether he can profitably elect courses which occasionally conflict. No matter how great the care taken in arranging the Tabular View, it often happens that two valuable courses have one hour a week, or, in the case of Fine Arts 2 and English 6, one hour a fortnight, in common...
...Faculty have voted that all one-hour examinations shall be limited strictly to one hour...