Word: instruct
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rebellion will triumph. Only last week representatives from half a dozen colleges met in order to discuss measures for enforcing discipline among professors and presidents, and issued an announcement to the effect that they could not approve the conduct of those college officers who had impudently attempted to instruct students as to their duty in athletic matters. These and various other incidents that might be quoted, show that a spirit of rebellion is abroad among college faculties, and that unless the students are firm and inflexible their authority may be set at defiance by reckless and disorderly professors...
...sport, with members of the faculty authorized to superintend all inter-collegiate contests, convey the impression that the students must be a very headstrong and indiscreet set of young men to need such careful watching. A simple set of rules providing that professional athletes shall not be employed to instruct undergraduates, that no games shall be played with professionals, and that the rules of foot-ball shall be modified so as to do away, as far as possible, with brutality, might have been received with favor by other colleges. As it is, it looks as if a Chinese wall were...
There was once a colt who could run pretty well; a horse, who made it his business to run, and excelled in it; a mule, who could kick, but whose running powers were small. The colt engaged the horse to instruct him in running, and was making good progress, when the mule stepped in, and, declaring that the horse was introducing a tricky and dangerous spirit, discharged him. "I, myself," said he, "will assume charge of the colt's education in running, as well as the other things," But the mule was lame, Moral: Was not the mule kind...
...means small. In England, Girton and Newnham and the University of London afford the means of higher education to a few hundred women only. Some other institutions are also open to women; but the whole number graduated each year is to the number which American colleges instruct yearly as the area of the British Isles to that of the United States...
...University will be prepared to instruct students in Agriculture, Botany, Drawing, Engineering, Music, Physiology and Zoology, Physics, Mathematics and Languages. Among the list of instructors in Mathematics we find the names of Professor Benjamin Williamson and Thomas Muir, formerly connected with the universities of London and Glasgow. Professors Flagg and Harkness have charge of the classical course. Mr. Flagg was tutor in Greek at Harvard for four years, and is at present connected with Cornell University. Professor Appleton of Harvard, '64, heads the list of instructors in German, among whom is Prof. Horatio S. White, Harvard '73, and at present...