Word: learning
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...been here a week and only met one; and that one was the professor's son, who called with his father; and she says he asked her if she thought written examinations tended to injure the style of young writers, and told her he had never had time to learn to dance...
...night there will be a scraggly pine-tree in the parlor, and a gathering of the haut ton there in honor of his arrival. He will have to talk poetry with his aunt, and Greek with the clergyman. But "neque tu choreas sperne, puer," and leave the clergyman to learn from mamma how hard you have studied; she will make out a much better case than yourself, we assure...
...Stuff!" she interrupted, "the elective system is a failure. You keep boys steadily at school from the time they are big enough to run alone, pick out their studies for them without consulting their own wishes, give them no chance to learn anything outside of books, treat them as mere cramming machines, and then, after this process has gone on ten or a dozen years, you suddenly remove all restraints and say, 'It is a very difficult thing to lay out a course of study properly, so use all wisdom, and Heaven bless you, my dear.'" Here my aunt gave...
...whether the student understands the subject or not. Again, too much attention is given to the theoretical and too little to the practical side of the subject. It takes so long to work up the great number of principles contained in the lectures, that no time is left to learn their application. As a result, the difficulty of the study is greatly increased, and it becomes impossible to retain what it has cost so much labor to master. This lack of practical drill is the great fault of the whole system. Students hardly ever acquire any facility...
...possible to secure 200 additional subscribers, as it would be necessary to do to insure paying for lighting, it is certainly a question if it would not better serve the interests of the association correspondingly to increase the reading matter. The Directors will be glad to learn the opinions of members upon this question, and also the names of additional journals desired. For convenience, a list of what are now on file and are ordered is subjoined...