Word: mentioning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...away to attend the recitations. While there is much exaggeration in their statement, there is nevertheless much truth as well. Perhaps nothing is so tedious to a young mind as to sit hour after hour in a section there the method of teaching is wearisome and false, not to mention the (often unjust) dislike to the voice and presence of the instructor. No matter how interesting the subject, no matter how much the student may think it will benefit him, unless the head of the department posesses the magnetic power of instructing his pupils, they are doing themselves great injury...
Resolved, that the editors of the Hamilton Lit. are hereby informed that during the coming year they are to refrain from all criticism or unfavorable mention of any member or members of the Faculty...
...greater than of at least the forms of these subjects. The department of Political Economy at Harvard has always been very fertile and progressive in suggesting and presenting courses for the study of the more important economic questions of the day, and we are aware that the subject we mention comes to some extent within the scope of one or more of the courses already given by this department; still in some of its more important phases, such as that concerned with the monopoly agitation, and railroad legislation, as well perhaps as the cognate question of the general relations...
...course in treating of the physical recreations at college, a writer has first to mention the great college sports, foot ball, base ball, rowing, lacrosse, cricket, and so on. Many question whether these can rightly be called recreations, arguing that they require (and get) certainly more physical and not infrequently more mental exertion than the regular college duties. They argue further that the demands that such sports make on the body and mind for strength and endurance have an injurious effect. Of course there are extremes in all things, and too much time and brains spent on such recreations...
...this room where the photograph albums of past classes are kept, and a glance into them would repay you. But enough. You must go there yourself if you wish to have your curiosity satisfied. There are many gems which time does not permit us to mention...