Word: noted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Presidents Porter and Eliot before the "Massachusetts Classical and High School Teachers Association." The reports are worth reading, for they give evidence of how alive American educators are becoming to the necessity of greater co-operation. In education, as in everything else, co-operation seems to be the key-note of success. The plan which President Eliot proposes of having a general board, representing all the colleges interested, to have charge of the preparation and marking of examination papers in all cases when subjects and limits can be agreed upon, is not without weight, and, if carried out, would...
...certainly very interesting to note the positions taken by many of the other colleges on the elective system. What we publish today from Brown is illustration of the reserve with which the system is regarded away from Cambridge. Harvard has led the way. Very slowly Harvard's sister colleges are falling into line. With one eye upon the old system, with another upon the new, they are trying to lose sight of neither. If the new succeeds, then very good; if it fails, the old is still near enough to be called back and taken up again...
Kohler. German-English Dictionary; Thieme. - German-English Dictionary are now on sale. - Also, punched paper for note book covers...
...seems plausible that for three hours each week he can give more information to the men in any course than they can ever obtain by hearing some of their own number repeat in a more crude way the things which they either know already or have written in their note books. Much valuable time seems to be unnecessarily lost, especially in the larger courses. There, each individual person ought to have a correspondingly shorter time, but that is a thing that but few instructors can guage. The object of the instructors is to tell men what they cannot find...
...suite of rooms at a principal hotel, he engaged the head waiter as his conjutor. He then dispatched a letter of the most unexceptional caligraphy extant, inviting her to a matinee. She revolted at the idea, refused to consider herself sacrificable to his desires, and sent a polite note of refusal. On receiving which he procured a carbine and bowie knife, said that he would not now forge fetters hymeneal with the queen, went to an isolated spot, severed his jugular vein and discharged the contents of his carbine into his abdomen. The debris was removed by the coroner...