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...well known periodicals, as well as in our own, attention was called to the lack of opportunity for men who intend to teach to get the benefit of the experience of college instructors. It was shown that a man may understand a subject thoroughly and yet be unable to impart his knowledge to others, simply because he does not know how to do it. Assuming, as one has a right to do, that a large number of college graduates will become instructors, it appeared that a department of pedagogy, or, if a smaller scale is more desirable, a series...
...education, so before the middle of the fifth century, a class of men sprang up which gave extra instruction. These were called Sophists, or, as Professor Sidgwick calls them "professors of rhetoric and art of conduct." Their whole life was spent wandering about from town to town imparting knowledge by means of lectures and long discourses to those who would pay. Socrates' life was diametrically opposite to this; he did not go about but stayed at home, he received no compensation for his instruction for he considered it a desecration to impart his gifts for money, and so he lived...
...been chosen to fill the new chair of Bibilical literature at Yale. The foundation for the professorship, $50,000, has been given by a few gentlemen who desire their names to remain unknown. The object of the new chair of instruction is, as expressed by the donors, to impart an intelligent apprehension of the English Bible, with a view to stimulating an earnest Christian faith and developing a manly Christian life. In commemoration of the late President Woolsey the professorship will be called the Woolsey professorship...
...policy of the crew and the details of the stroke. With the captain and crew in thorough accord with its advisors, the task of developing the eight would be far easier, and when to this is added the stimulus which the increased interest of the college at large would impart to the crew, could they feel that it was in their hands and not in the hands of the graduates, the chance of success would be greatly increased. In selecting such a committee, particular care should be taken that only experienced oarsmen are chosen, and those who have rowed...
...possibility of substituting in education modern languages for the ancient. The modern literatures are literatures. It is useless to claim the title of humanities exclusively for the classics. Men are not asked to give up culture for business, but for the sake of business. They are asked to impart culture by a new method, and the complaint is that this new method is of the second rate, while the first method is of the first rate...