Word: resultants
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...instructors in announcing the event of an hour examination generally state that the result of the students' efforts will affect to some extent their marks on the course. If a man be desirous of a good mark, he must therefore "cram," and in doing this must neglect his other courses. It is no child's play to plough through all the notes he must have taken by this time of the year on his various studies. An occasional hour examination is possibly a good thing to beget interest, but that good is hardly great enough, to my mind, to countenance...
...retrogression to the days of term examinations and required studies. Many lazy ones are caught in the trap, but we fail to see what good accrues to them by the operation, while for those who are working earnestly a deviation from good work to ill-advised "cramming" is the result. The hour examination is not a benefit to anyone...
...from time to time in the college publications, can no longer be ignored by any one. It is very gratifying to find that these matters are being seriously discussed in all circles within the university. We are confident that this healthy, manly spirit which is appearing so prominently will result in bettering many of the relations of college life. While it is well to set our aims very high, we must not allow ourselves to be carried so far by the present reaction as to expect that those differences which exist in every community of men with "diversified functions" shall...
...prevents the education of the Negro by the ballot.-No. Am. Review, 1879, pp. 227, 231-233. (b) It is contrary to the spirit of American institutions.-"An Appeal to Caesar," pp. 21-36. (c) It will result in the formation of a "Black party." - "An Appeal to Caesar...
...paper on "Keat's Poems" shows the result of thorough study on the subject. The criticisms are careful, brief and to the point. The quotations are happily selected. It is altogether a very interesting article...