Word: rightly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rarely delivers a lecture on the subject, but occupies a position similar to that of the "Autocrat" or "Professor" in Holmes' charming "Breakfast Table" series. Easy discussions are carried on between the professor and the members of the class and among the members themselves, the professor simply retaining the right of exercising the functions of leader and critic. In studying an author or a period, the professor assigns to each student some special feature of the subject, upon which he is required to prepare a short essay. A number of these essays are read the next day in the class...
...ignorance; the other, and in our opinion the more important, mission is, or should be, to test knowledge. Some may argue that there is only a very slight distinction, if any at all, between the testing of ignorance and the testing of knowledge; but it would seem that the right to such argument belongs only to such men as are able sincerely to deceive themselves with a belief that they know as much, or nearly as much, or even more, that they are ignorant of. Such men are really very rare; but if we suppose that they do exist...
...have recently been examining some of the bills that I paid during my freshman year. Here is one of them, which I confess I thought rather large, but which I paid, being a freshman and thinking it all right, always having heard a good deal of talk about Cambridge high prices...
...Nash, '84, ran up a clean score of 10 consecutive bulls eyes, 200 yards, off hand, at Walnut Hill last Saturday. This is a remarkable performance, only right men in America holding this record...
...events, unless some ready money is raised by to night, the society dies in February instead, according to their views, of next June. Now, however, Professor Ames personally guarantees that if the $600 is paid in before to-night, not only will the society go through this year all right, but the permanent capital in stock, which is in the opinion of the directors the only means of ensuring the permanent existence of the society, will be secured. According to the directors, then, it is not merely the services of the society for this year that the students will secure...