Word: maye
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Warren's story, "A Bit of Official Tragedy," is unlike most of the articles contributed to the Monthly, but it is worthy of space in the magazine. It is a serious story of human life. The writer depicts with great sincerity the awful influence disappointments and Jesertion may exert upon human passion. The tale is told in a simple manner and the artistic effect is increased by a careful avoidance of all vulgarity...
...discussion now going on in the Nineteenth Century is arousing a great deal of interest in England, and has also attracted much attention on this side of the water; and it may well do so, for it is upon a subject-the merits and demerits of the present examination system, which has been much discussed among us of late, and is one of the problems which American educators must next solve. The discussion originated in a protest against the system of competitive examinations which appeared in the Nineteenth Century. This protest was signed by some of the most distinguished educators...
...Professor William Knight, H. A. Perry, and H. T. Humphrey have vigorously opposed the movement against the competitive system of examinations. However, an effort will be made by the signers of the protest to bring the matter to the attention of the Queen in order that a royal commission may be appointed to investigate the competitive system thoroughly, and consider modes of examinations which will do away with the present evils...
...that honesty is a necessary constituent in the character of a gentleman. Some things are best perceived through their influence upon the objects about them. We know that there is a fog on account of the obscurity which it casts about all objects sensible to the vision; so we may perceive the evil of competitive examinations by the manner in which they dim the keenness of the moral perceptions of those affected by them. The mind will not be broadened by an education which is built on the competitive examination system; rather, it will be narrowed by the most superficial...
...Delivery Room are 2947 volumes of periodicals, which may be taken out for seven days, and 2128 reference books for all departments...