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Word: instructor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...tabular view will probably be issued within a month, this is a fit time to express a hope that the abuse complained of last year in regard to the position of History 7 may not again be permitted. It is absolutely wrong, in order to convenience the instructor, to 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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/1/1879 | See Source »

...little out of spirits at lunch that day, and growled at the butter; but you scolded me, as you always do, and I got cheered up in time for my afternoon recitation in history. I was called up and made a rush, and the instructor asked to see Mr. Growler after the recitation. I was delighted, - doubtless he was going to compliment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ONE MORE GROWL. | 4/1/1879 | See Source »

...INSTRUCTOR (too old a bird to have salt sprinkled on his tail). I did not say, but you can go on where the last man left...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 3/7/1879 | See Source »

...amenable to the regulations determined upon by the government of the College, and the former ought to set an example of obedience to the rules established by proper authority. We are obliged to submit to a marking-system, if that can be called a system, in which each instructor acts upon a theory peculiar to himself; and this evil we have endured, because no way has presented itself by which we could escape from it. But is each instructor also to construe the rules of the Faculty in conformity to his own views of the best methods of instruction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/7/1879 | See Source »

...passed the old Gymnasium, I noticed that it was an entire ruin. The conductor informed me that an instructor in German had kept his marking-machine there, and one day, when he was trying to get minus fifty per cent out of it, the thing exploded. The instructor had twenty-four funerals. They buried as much of him as they could find the first time, and whenever another piece was discovered, they had an extra funeral...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEW GYMNASIUM. | 3/7/1879 | See Source »

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