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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Although Mr. Croswell's reading was unusually interesting, only twenty-five persons cared enough about hearing it to take the trouble to walk to Sever. Many fine lectures of late have been slighted in this manner. If the students would think of the vast amount of trouble that lecturers often put themselves to, so that they may appear before a Harvard audience, and the disappointment that they must feel at seeing evidence of so small an appreciation of their efforts, we think the students would give them a much heartier support; besides, the benefit derived from such lectures can hardly...
...professors delighted the third year engineers the other day with his views on the so-called "marking system." He argues, and with some force, that a lawyer, in order to find out what a witness knows, does not want a written, but an oral examination; that written examinations are often purposely ambiguous in order to hide ignorance, and that, in his experience of thirty years' teaching, "marking does not show, either absolutely or even relatively, the amount of a student's knowledge on any given subject." We should like to get the professor's ideas upon co-education. - [Acta Columbiana...
...insisted that her eldest son should receive the names of her father and her husband; accordingly a few years later a brilliant youth who rejoiced in the name of Yung Mang might often have been seen creeping about his delighted grandfather's hut. This child grew to be the pride of his relatives and the wonder of Apeland; and the descendants of Yung and Tue to this very day honor the name of their forefather, Yung Mang...
...rega'd to this matter," he rejoined, "I think it can be best understood by means of a simile. Take for instance a three-legged stool, such as you often see in the kentry. If you raise...
...will deny that very often an article or a poem in a college paper derives additional interest from the reader's acquaintance with the writer; and it is not absolutely necessary that this acquaintance be a personal one. The knowledge that we are reading an author of whose merits we have formed a previous judgment imparts zest, even if that author presents himself to our imagination only as X, Y, or Z. It is, therefore, to be regretted that articles are not more systematically signed with initials real or assumed. A writer should not be either too modest...