Word: procession
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...close of every examination time one cannot help a feeling of dissatisfaction with the process by which the work a man may have done or left undone during the term is determined. It cannot but be unsatisfactory in almost every way. But it is particularly of the system of "cramming," now so much in vogue and which our examination system so carefully nurtures, that we wish to speak. It is absolutely certain, as things are here at present, that certain men will be absent from as many recitations as they dare, and will do little if any work on their...
...easily keep along with his class. If, however, it comes to a question of a man's working hard or working in fact not at all, we are heartily in favor of the former, What is wanted is a broader and more liberal education, and not the process of forcing a boy along with the only object in view of passing a good entrance examination. This would effectually remove any temptation to overfit and would result much better for both boy and college...
...words of one of its greatest sons, 'a bestower of rewards for schoolboy merit'-while thousands of despairing boys thus waste their precious hours in 'contracting their own views and deadening their own sensibilities' by a failure in the acquisition of the useless-while we apply this inconceivably irrational process to Greek and Latin, and to no other language ever taught under the sun-while we thus accumulate instruction without education, and feel no shame or compunction if at the end of many years we thrust our youth, in all their unwarned ignorance, through the open gate of life-while...
...understand that Mr. Eadward Muybridge the inventor of the instantaneous process of photography would like to give a lecture here. Mr. Muybridge has made curious discoveries in regard to the motions and gait of horses and other animals. His curious results have been attained by his cleverness in adapting the process of instantaneous photography to the ends he aimed at. Last year there was a most interesting article in the Century on this subject with many illustrations from Mr. Muybridge's photographs. Since then Mr. Muybridge has published a book containing the results of his discoveries...
...Port have taken it upon themselves to denounce in scathing terms this performance in particular, and the theatre in general. The Transcript thereupon expresses its surprise that such a proceeding could ever occur in a "University City." A "University City" is a delightfully elastic phrase, and might by this process be made the cloak of reproach for a multitude of sins. Nevertheless it would be hard to extend the reproach for such narrowness to the university itself. The good people of Cambridge proper, and of course more particularly of the outlying districts of the town, it must be said, take...