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There are stones on both sides of the fence. And at one moment it is more proper to rail at the method of instruction than the conduct of the student, or vice-versa, because either the one or the other is more flagrantly misfit. But in the long run no criticism of instruction is sound which does not also recognize that the formal instructor is responsible for very few of the personal aptitudes and aversions of the individual student; and no execration heaped upon the head of students is just without the knowledge that artless instruction can bar the progress...
...concerned that some senior gift representatives have felt offended or attacked by Alternative Senior Gift. And I guess to them I’d like to say that we did not envision this project as a method of undermining senior gift,” said Beckett. “We sort of only want to put other options out there and encourage a dialogue about Senior Gift and other gift giving...
Quincy’s plan to use renewable energy resources—at least temporarily—comes in the same year that the Green Cup competition has changed its method for evaluating the Houses’ level of environmental consciousness...
...poll also pioneered a new method for measuring the political ideology of America’s college students...
After failed attempts at courting donors, Dunster enlisted the help of the ambitiously titled Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England. The Society suggested a method for procuring funds: all Dunster had to do was take American Indian students into Harvard and deep-pocketed donors would step forward. The more these students knew English, the Society’s thinking went, the more they’d be able to read the gospel...