Word: lecturere
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There are four ways of delivering a lecture: reading from a manuscript, a proceeding sometimes entertaining but never thrilling; learning by heart, which is seldom more successful; the combination of the two, so often heard in pulpits and meetings, called speaking from notes; and the true, natural way which involves...
Force which is born in one and can never be taught, is another requisite as are ease and clearness, though these latter may be partially acquired. Personality, too, is important; for a lecturer must be able to hold the attention: once this is lost, it can never be regained. Finally...
Mr. Graham Wallas, lecturer to the University from the London School of Economics will speak on "British General Elections" in Matthews 34, this evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be open to all members of the University.
Enforced attendance on college exercises, especially lectures, has for a long time been a source of disagreement between the authorities and the students. But the fact that attendance has to be enforced ought to raise the question of the justice of such a proceeding. Is it fair to force students...
If every lecturer could feel assured that his students had already grasped the general facts which he was about to discuss, he could devote his time wholly to demonstrating the real significance of those facts; and thus there would be none of the duplication of work, which at present makes...