Word: offing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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The manner of instructing, in Freshman year, gives little opportunity for difference of opinion or exercise of judgment. There is no alternative, you must believe without any modification the theory or interpretation proposed by a single writer. Keeping fully in mind that the embryo professor must imitate before he can...
If the chief object of the first year is only the acclimation of the would-be student, and the instructor's duty is only to keep the mind from falling into its primitive weakness, a tutor's services are doubtless as efficient as any could be. But if rapid progress...
There is no delusion produced by the nobler title of professor; we know the difference both in the manner of giving and the instruction given. The relations between instructor and learner are different, are less restrained and more sociable.
The professor is sure of his calling, his fitness for teaching. Men seldom voluntarily make a life work of what is distasteful to them, and if forced into a pursuit incompatible with the natural tendencies of their minds, their labors in one unwelcome would never gain them professorships in our...
Our professors not only give us the conclusions from a life study of their special subjects, but also show us how simple and natural the methods of experiment, how numerous the sources from which we may obtain materials, and that the process of thought on subjects most remote from the...