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...February 18, the subject of the lecture will be "Modern Anthropology, its History, Method and Sphere." February 25, "Man's Origin, Antiquity and Development." March 5, "Anthropology and Sociology. March 12, "Benefits of Anthropological Study." The lectures will be made as clear and interesting as possible by means of charts, diagrams and blackboard drawings, and each person will be presented with a synopsis of each lecture...
LECTURES ON ANTHROPOLOGY.Dr. Ward will deliver a series of four Monday evening lectures in Sever 11, beginning Feb. 18, at 7.30 o'clock, his subject being Anthropology, or the Scientific Method Applied to Man; including an historical sketch of the new science, its method and scope; the anthropological method illustrated by special subjects, such as the old and new ideas of the world, man's age in the world, his physical and mental development, the question of progress or retrogression: sociology and the development of the social condition; and the advantages to be gained from anthropological study. The lectures will...
Such are some of the evils of the competitive system. American educators are now trying to find a method of examinations which will adequately determine the intellectual rank and still not make the examination the "end all" of the students' ambition...
...interesting to note, in President Eliot's report, what have been the results of the new method of admission examinations adopted by a vote of the faculty in 1886. The members of the last entering class have had unusual advantages in their admission examinations, in that it was their privilege to choose almost any combination they wished from a scheme of examinations including a wider range of subjects than has ever been given. Under the former scheme of admission examinations, the common method of entering was by presenting all the required elementary subjects, together with either French or German...
...whole, the new method of examination bids fair, to quote from the report, "to enrich and diversify school programmes; to widen the avenues which lead to the university, without impairing in quantity or quality the preliminary training of any individual boy; and ultimately to utilize as preparatory schools for the university the best of that large class of American schools in which no Greek and only the elements of Latin are taught...