Word: pupills
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Humphreys requests of his former pupils now in the several classes at Harvard their informing their friends that he will, after Christmas, have a vacancy in his house for one resident pupil. A gentlemanly and earnest youth would find a kind and comfortable home with such tuition as they had from him. For circular address E. R. Humphreys, 129 West Chester Park, Boston...
...Humphreys requests of his former pupils now in the several classes at Harvard their informing their friends that he will, after Christmas, have a vacancy in his house for one resident pupil. A gentlemanly and earnest youth would find a kind and comfortable home with such tuition as they had from him. For circular address E. R. Humphreys, 129 West Chester Park, Boston...
...this economy was directly owing to the tutor's supervisions, for every remittance passed through his hands. There are some very amusing letters between the tutor mentioned above and the mother of his "Pupil Anthony Gawdy" on the subject of whether it would be cheaper to have a dressing gown made at Cambridge or at home; and the pedagogue quite agrees with her ladyship in her letter where she states : "Whether I think it were not amiss if you willed him to defer yet making up of it till his coming home, which may happily save yet which ye Taylor...
...afford the necessary expenses of a college education, and people in every walk of life who, while having no desire for a college education, might wish to pursue some special study for their own improvement. The instruction is to be carried on by correspondence between the professors and the pupils. About twenty-five professors have already been engaged who receive a certain amount from each pupil according to the character of the study. The plan is certainly a novel one, and if successful will become an important factor in the educational development of the country...
...deeper enquiry. The teachers need only possess good receptive talents. Thus in France it is looked upon as a false step when a young man of promising talents takes a professorship in a faculty in the provinces. The method of instruction in France is well adapted to give pupils, of even moderate capacity, sufficient knowledge for the routine of their calling. They have no choice between different teachers, and they swear in verbamagistra; this gives a happy self-satisfaction and freedom from doubts. If the teacher has been well chosen, this is sufficient in ordinary cases, in which the pupil...