Word: mannered
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...manner of instructing, in Freshman year, gives little opportunity for difference of opinion or exercise of judgment. There is no alternative, you must believe without any modification the theory or interpretation proposed by a single writer. Keeping fully in mind that the embryo professor must imitate before he can originate, we feel that the question whether their instruction is profitable to those who are trying to prepare, in the short period of a college course, as thoroughly as may be for the duties of life, is worth a little consideration...
There is no delusion produced by the nobler title of professor; we know the difference both in the manner of giving and the instruction given. The relations between instructor and learner are different, are less restrained and more sociable...
...feel at liberty, or rather we feel it our duty, to allude in a very decided manner to certain statements relating to college matters which have lately appeared in the Boston Advertiser. We refer especially to the Advertiser of last Wednesday, in which, among other statements, - none of which, even if true, should have been published in any but a college paper, - the preliminary action of the Senior Societies in reference to the class elections was given...
...three times, and, no doubt thinking he deserved his base, started for first, which a muff of O'Rourke enabled him to keep. Wells seemed to have been so much pleased with Bush's new style of playing that he tried it himself, reaching first in precisely the same manner. Tyler made first through an error of Spalding, Hooper was out by Spalding at first, while McKim made the only base hit of the inning, scoring on Addy's throw over third; Bush, Wells, and Tyler having previously made runs. Kent went out on foul bound to White, leaving...
...acknowledged by many of her own students, but we doubt if the Iconoclast will work a reform. The only really important charge it brings against the society is, that it prefers its own interests to those of the college, and this it does not prove in a satisfactory manner. That it is sensible of the weakness of its own position seems to be shown by the irrelevant nature of some of its articles; one, for instance, being devoted to ridiculing the "Bones Initiation," of which the writer evidently knows very little, and which cannot...