Word: recitatione
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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DEAR FRIEND, - The charms of my University life exceed even my fondest anticipations. Society here is intense. Cambridge is so rich in intellectual life, in local color, that one's faculties are kept in constant tension. I feel that I am improving very fast under these stimulating influences. The instructors...
Jan. 1. I am going to keep a diary this year. Cousin Sue gave me this; and, when I get back to college, it will help recall her to me. Had a talk with the governor to-day. He thinks I don't study enough, and wonders why I am...
The President carefully reviews the growth of the elective system for the last ten years, and gives several reasons - now familiar to most of us - to show that this form of instruction is more suitable than that by recitation.
SCENE II. - A Recitation.
1st STUDENT. Aw, pawdon, Miss Carbuncle; but really, you know, I wish you would request Miss Sinews and Miss Muscle to leave off their jerseys, aw, when they come to recitation. Not that I care, you know; but really, by Jove, one must have some consideration for the dear men...