Word: performances
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard. We must disagree with the writer, however, when he blames the instructors. Both those gentlemen are extremely painstaking and diligent in their efforts to raise the standard of elocution at Harvard. The trouble arises not from their lack of effort, but from the impossibility for two men to perform the work which is put upon them. As the writer says, those who do not engage their time very early in the term are even deprived of the benefit of fifteen minutes' instruction a week. Of course no very great progress can be made in such limited time, even with...
...mental collapse that effectually prevents any work for some time. Cramming, in the case of a majority of students, is not a hurried effort to get a superficial knowledge of the half-year's work in a day or two, but merely a review of work which has been performed from day to day. Such a review few will attempt to condemn. It is all very well to say that we should do our reviewing in the Christmas vacation or during the year, but it is impossible to perform faithfully regular work and review past work at once...
...witnessed the erection of Sever Hall and the new Gymnasium, and the establishment of a Professorship of Hygiene. The College is still burdened by the marking system, and is likely to be until the whole system of American instruction is reformed, and the university is no longer compelled to perform part of the functions of the preparatory schools; but much required work has been abolished, and the new method of examining candidates or admission is an important step in the right direction. The new system of conferring degrees, though somewhat elaborate, tends to encourage sound scholarship. Many valuable additions have...
...Board of Overseers against open scholarships means anything, it is that the existing scholarships shall be given to those actually and at present in need of them. With this vote to guide them, those to whom the assignment of the scholarships is in trusted ought clearly to understand and perform their duties henceforth, if, as it seems, they have not heretofore. By inspecting the list of scholarships published in the Catalogue, one cannot help believing that they were awarded exclusively according to the rank list, though not a single donor, excepting the class of 1821, imposed any such conditions upon...
...College. By the words College and Alma Mater, he evidently means the benefactors of the College. Our debt to the College is our debt to its benefactors. But in what way is this different from our debt to others who have lived before us? Granted that a student cannot perform certain every-day acts "without receiving that which he does not pay for," are there any other acts which any one can perform without continually receiving that which he does not pay for, without being in debt to the past? I think not. A. speaks of our debt...