Word: pupills
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cardinal Wolsey, and that John Locke, Ben Johnson, Sir Philip Sydney, William Penn, the Duke of Wellington and William E. Gladstone have been among its students. Oriel College reminds us of Sir Walter Raleigh, Bishop Butler, Thomas Arnold and John H. Newman. Corpus Christi once had Coleridge for a pupil, and from University College the ethereal Shelly was expelled. John Wickliff was a fellow of Merton College in 1364, and Frederic W. Robertson and the saintly Helm, the author of the hymn, "From Greenlands lacy Mountains," were students of Brasenose College. And so on I might go, but the list...
...idea of teacher as master, and the pupil as a sort of slave long ago passed away, but there still exists, on the part of the one, the feeling that his efforts are thankless and unappreciated, and on the part of the other, the feeling that he is being instructed by a man, who if he does good work, does it with the view of standing high in educational circles, rather than of benefiting those under his charge. The impressions of both are usually equally false, but they will exist just as long as there is a want of sympathy...
...needs of the Annex are necessarily many, but among the most noticeable is that of larger class rooms and plenty of money, The society having the Annex in charge makes special endeavors to afford its highest instruction even to small classes, giving it, in special cases, to a single pupil, because it wishes to invite this class of students to Cambridge, and because the very being of the movement is based on the desire of its founders to afford a grade of instruction not readily obtained elsewhere...
...study greek, botany or metaphysics, that it made no difference what she studied; the question was with whom she studied. There is an accurate perception of the relation of the teacher to his work expressed in this remark. The true teacher is a personal force that acts upon the pupil in a thousand ways not made manifest through the daily lessons.-[Amer. Queen...
...Humphreys desires to state that he has a vacancy for one pupil at present, and that during the summer vacations he will be at home to read with students for freshmen and sophomore examinations in September, and will be assisted by a Harvard Honorman in mathematics and by able teachers in modern languages. He will also then have rooms for two resident pupils. 129 West Chester Park, April...