Word: learning
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...make the best resolutions, but, unfortunately, few carry them out, and as these few would learn equally much whether the elective were conducted in one way or another, it seems to me that it should be so conducted as to give the greatest advantage possible to the men who make up the larger part of the elective...
...these corrections, and the faults of the first theme are repeated in the second for the simple reason that attention has not yet been called to them. This is especially the case in the Sophomore themes, where the writer has had but little previous practice, and has not learned to criticise his own work. If some arrangement could be made so that a theme could be returned with corrections in season to serve as a guide in the composition of the next, those who really wish to learn how to write would have an opportunity to make more rapid improvement...
...semiannuals, cannot afford the time such a daily task requires. Now these difficulties might be removed by having the Secretary's boy go around each Monday morning and collect the petitions. It is a simple task, for, although at first he must knock at each door, he would soon learn what rooms he needed specially to visit, and could tell almost by intuition the men who had petitions. This may seem but a trifling suggestion, but as it concerns the comfort of so many we gladly make...
...professor, but in which no instruction at all is given, so that the work seems thrown away. We refer to Senior forensics. The Senior spends several days in working up a difficult subject as best he can, and hopes when he gives in the fruit of his labor, to learn where he has fallen short and how he might do better. Not a word of advice does he get; on the contrary, another puzzling subject is given him to work up unaided. In themes, it is said, we are to be instructed in style; in forensics, in the arrangement...
...sorry to learn that Professor Palmer is to leave us until April, and that this absence is caused by the ill-health of his wife. They start for the Bahamas immediately, and will remain there until spring. Those students who are under Professor Palmer's instruction will find any change of teachers unpleasant and disadvantageous; and his wide circle of friends will regret his absence, for few instructors have a greater personal acquaintance with the undergraduates or a deeper interest in their welfare; he has the sympathy of us all, and our heartiest wishes for a favorable journey...