Word: recitatione
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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A recent visitor to Williams College thus describes a recitation as conducted by the venerable Professor Mark Hopkins: "The class was one which had made a speciality of the study of the professor's book, entitled 'Outlines of the Study of Man.' The professor's method was as follows: He...
LOUIS DYER.The University of Vermont is to receive from Mr. J. P. Howard a new recitation building, gymnasium and library buildings. a $25,000 statute of Lafayette, and $50,000 for the endowment of a Professorship of Natural History. Besides this the university has lately received $40,000 in miscellaneous...
President Potter of Union College is reported as offering to the students prizes for care and good taste displayed in arranging rooms. A study of elegance is noticed already, and the traditional confusion of a college room is disappearing. Students who do not shine in the recitation-room now have...
It doesn't reflect especial credit on the class that a member of '86 went to sleep in a German recitation recently, and another amused himself by rolling a marble down the floor to the instructor's desk. These incidents, however, we are glad to hear are not participated in...
Whatever may be the outcome of these speculations, however, the growth of the Harvard annex must be very gratifying to friends of the higher education of women throughout the country. The project has now ceased to be merely an experiment, and has become established upon a firm and lasting basis...