Word: instructive
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...place an elective in such a position that many men will be prevented from taking it. Electives are crowded either because they are valuable or because they are easy. In the first case, students should be encouraged to take them, and if the instructor finds it inconvenient to instruct them all in the existing number of sections, then that number should be increased. In the second case, the amount of work done in the course should be extended. In either case, the expedient of making it impossible for men to take electives without sacrificing other desirable courses is wholly improper...
...them. So far from agreeing to this, I think that the Editors of the Lampoon have made a very happy hit in giving the features of men known to us all, and putting beneath them lines which indicate the estimation in which they are held by those whom they instruct. Ten or twenty years from now they will be of great value, and if they are ever published, as the verses from the Advocate have been published, we who are now undergraduates will regard them with an interest equal at least to that which we feel for the book...
Certainly, within the boundaries of so wide a realm as has been proposed, there will be much to interest and instruct all who have any taste for the refining arts; and for the advantage of those who cannot become members of the Art Club, we are requested to repeat the offer made at the beginning of last term. The Art Club will be glad to place the use of its rooms and books at the disposal of any one having a Fine Arts Elective, on payment of $1.00, the student sending his name to Mr. Barrett Wendell, 9 Linden Street...
...powerful stereopticon upon a large canvas screen. The lecturer will be Mr. Leonard Waldo, Assistant at Harvard College Observatory, who accompanied the expedition as Assistant Astronomer. The lecture will be one of importance to those interested in Astronomy, and yet will be so presented as to amuse and instruct a popular audience. Only 400 tickets are to be issued; 200 have already been secured; the remainder will be for sale at the University Bookstore after Wednesday noon next. The proceeds of this entertainment will be for the benefit of Mission work in Cambridge...
...Huxley's visit to this country evolution has been the prominent topic of discussion in scientific circles. So various have been the opinions which we find in the papers from day to day, that a clear explanation of the theory could not fail both to please and to instruct many who have been puzzled by the conflicting opinions they have read...