Word: processes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...evidently has a distrust of the heliotype process...
...ability to recite them calls forth an effort of the mind that might be better applied to something more valuable and of more literary worth. Detached passages are given whose few paragraphs in no wise represent a connected thought or anything in particular. No good or pleasure results; the process degenerates into a mere effort of memory, and the mind soon relinquishes its hold of what was learned with so little interest. Let any one take the selections given to be committed in our French courses and he will readily see how profitless they are, and how far from serving...
...called a drawback to the system. It may perhaps come to pass that this innocent experiment shall result in showing the authorities that it is possible for men to acquire useful knowledge in certain subjects by such means, without having that knowledge afterwards clinched by the painful process of examination. This result can only come if students exhibit in ways more or less direct the positive and active effects of these lectures on their own knowledge and thoughts. For the present, at least, these lectures form an interesting relief from the irksome grind of formal courses. As the Chronicle says...
...25th, it was unanimously voted to establish in the academic department, or college of liberal arts, sixty-four free scholarships for the benefit of deserving and needy students. These will be divided equally between the sexes. They will be administered by the faculty according to regulations now in process of preparation. In grateful commemoration of the munificent legacy of Mr. Rich, which amounts to nearly $1,000,000, these new foundations will be perpetually known as "the Isaac Rich scholarship...
...faculties. After a few moments of impressive silence, one of the professors at the big table, who had all our papers in a neat pile before him, began to call slowly our names. As each man's name was called he marched up to the table and commenced a process of slow revolution about it, stopping at each of the professors to answer what appeared to be very numerous questions. My name was one of the first, and, having given myself a final brace, I stepped proudly up to the table, conscious that I was the only American there...