Word: problems
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Granting, then, that fatalism does not take away the zest of life let us inquire how much it modifies our notions of right and wrong. It is plain that no possible answer to the problem of freewill can change the experience men have had of what is good for them. Such conduct as has proved useful in the past, cannot but be thought wise for the future. In so far, therefore, as our notion of right and wrong is founded on experience, it would not seem to be at all effected by fatalism; and we have seen that fatalism does...
Probably there is hardly any one problem of education which has given rise to as much discussion and theorizing as this of examinations, how they are to be conducted and how far they are to be taken as a test. That the present system, which carries with it all the evils of the marking system, is unfair, is almost universally acknowledged; but that something is needed whereby to grade the classes and sections of classes, some measure or test of knowledge, is as universally agreed upon. Instructors say that they cannot do away with the present system of examinations...
...each, to form the student committee. This method of representation applies, of course, only to the coming conference; the Faculty, and the committee of the Faculty, know perfectly well give, and look forward, as the main result of the first conference, to the solution of this, the most difficult problem in the whole matter of student arbitration...
...received a single complaint about the piano fiend. Can it be that the musical men have loafed more than usual this season? Or are we to believe that a spirit of forbearance has crept in among them? We are led to hope that the latter solution of the problem is the true...
...plan which has been adopted in several courses in mathematics, of giving the new problems which are to be worked out upon each man's honor, and which are to count considerable in the year's work, has much to commend it to every earnest student. That an examination, written in a very limited time, is no test of one's knowledge or scholarship, is almost an axiom. This is especially true in mathematics where much of the work is original, and where it is perfectly possible for a man who has a firm grasp of the subject...