Word: rightly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seems to me that the time has come for our Faculty to recognize in the arrangement of vacations that the United States really extends as far west as the Pacific Ocean and that men who live outside the sacred boundaries of New England have as good a right to go home for Christmas as those who live in the city of Boston. We do not ask to have the four days, which would extend our vacation to the customary two weeks, added by simply dropping them out of the term, for no one would object to a corresponding shortening...
...ninety nine cases out of a hundred we must have done with the topic reading: - working up the result and leaving the cause till next week? It is not the amount of work merely, that counts in History 13, but the amount of work done in the right way. A goes to the library; spends forenoon in ransacking the shelves, with meagre result - not his fault to be sure, but C's who is ahead of him. B brings his books for general reading - sits in his easy chair and studies the whole history intelligently. A says he works hard...
...pointed out by the instructor. The course of general reading would be designed particularly for those who who were unavoidably prevented from using the reference books, and such a course would, at all events, be an extremely useful supplement to the special reading. We think our correspondent is right in maintaining that a large number of hard-working students in History 13 would be benefited by this addition of a general course of reading...
...plan of conducting a course shows, let us hope, more ignorance than laziness. Those who believe that History 13 requires more work than other full courses, must have formerly spent the time they now grudge putting on History 13, in pursueing the college catalogue in search of "snaps." And right here, it would be well to take a glance at the whole History department. In most of the courses the system of collateral reading is in vogue and with what result! The knowledge gained from such reading has a certain delicious flavor of uncertainty that shows only too well...
...office of the league on or before May 1, 1887, awards to be made June 15, 1887, as follows: For best essay, [$250; second best, $100; third best, $50. And for other essays deemed especially meritorious, a handsome silver medal, designed for this purpose. The league reserves the right to publish, at its own cost, any of the successful essays and to include the first prize essay in the annual publications of the league...