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...Seaver of Yale has completed his measurements of the Academic freshmen. The condition of the class as a whole was fairly good. It is rather interesting to compare some of these measurements with those of the freshman class at Yale last year. The average age of '94 is considerably above that of '93; 18 years, 10 months being the age of the average '94 man, to 18 years, 1 month for last year's freshmen. Ninety-four is also the heavier class, averaging 135 ibs. to 130. '93, however, has the heaviest man, 242 lbs. to 203 of the heaviest...
...annual meeting of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College was held at 50 State Street, the day before yesterday. Solomon Lincoln was chosen president of the board. The committee to nominate visiting committees was re-appointed as follows: Messrs. Adams, Fiske, Seaver, Walcott, J. T. Morse. It was voted to concur with the president and fellows in appointing Albert Andrew Howard, Ph. D., tutor in Latin for three years from Sept. 1, 1890. The committee on changes in the academic department was granted leave to report in print. The report of the committee to visit the Law School...
...Edwin P. Seaver, superintendent of the Boston public schools, spoke in Seaver 11 last night on "Teaching as a Profession...
...Seaver said that one of the first qualifications of a teacher should be control. He could scarcely imagine a more unhappy man than one who chose teaching as his vocation without possessing this qualification. Each man must solve the problems for him self which arise in the profession. The men who is in doubt as to the choice of teaching for his vocation should get employment in some school and decide the question in the light of a few years' experience. Formerly it was the custom of college men to acquire experience by teaching the district schools, but these...
This evening Edwin P. Seaver, Esq., Superintendent of the Boston public schools will address a College conference meeting on "Teaching." Mr. Seaver has been more or less connected with the profession of teaching all his life, and from his present position he has gained an experience which well qualifies him to speak on the above subject...