Word: realing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...often hear criticisms made not only upon Harvard, but upon other universities and colleges of the country that the training which is offered is far from being practical enough, -that in situations like the Institute of Technology do more real good than any number of colleges. It will be found, however, that most of these objections come form persons who possess a very limited idea of the true meaning of practical. To them the word practical is nearly synonymous with technical. The word should be taken in a broader sence than this. Any study is more or less practical...
...signifies in ever-case practical ability joined to most elevated theoretical knowledge. To a teacher such a course of training would be invaluable. The French government has spent a great deal of money on these schools with apparently little return, for the number of students is ridiculously small. The real benefit comes from the fact that the country is being supplied with teachers who are thoroughly grounded in their respective branches, and who can add the authority of actual experience to their statements...
...years, and we wish to say a few words about it. This school seems to have found a solution of the problem which has been puzzling the brains of educators for a number of years past,-how to teach modern languages in classes so that they may become real and live to the students. The scheme is to educate the ear as well as the eye by assiduous practice, so that the languages can be spoken as well as read, and it is almost useless for us to add that this method is the only thoroughly satisfactory one. English...
...Real and Imaginary Effects of Intemperance, by G. Thomann, 200 Worth street, New York. This pamphlet is a decided relief from most works on the subject of intemperance which generally take that vice as the root of all evil. The author takes up in a rational manner such subjects as insanity, explaining the exaggerations of those fanatics who always charge this disease to intemperance and showing that their position is largely a false one. Beer is favorhat their position is largely a false one. Beer is favorably contrasted with distilled liquors by tables of statistics collected from all parts...
...will be found to best answer the purpose, as it is ragged on a wooden frame which folds up into a small compass. They are usually square at the ends and are consequently slow sailors. Moreover, there is one serious objection to them, as the writer has learned from real experience, and it is this-a canvass canoe which weighs when new only twenty pounds will, after a month's knocking about, be found to greatly increase in weight. This may be avoided if the precaution is taken to dry it thoroughly each time after using and not leave...