Word: sections
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...excursion in N. H. 8 to day, will leave Harvard square, corner of Brighton street, at 1.15 P. M. The section will walk to the Allston station and take the train for Auburndale...
...they learned absolutely nothing in it, and that it was time thrown away to attend the recitations. While there is much exaggeration in their statement, there is nevertheless much truth as well. Perhaps nothing is so tedious to a young mind as to sit hour after hour in a section there the method of teaching is wearisome and false, not to mention the (often unjust) dislike to the voice and presence of the instructor. No matter how interesting the subject, no matter how much the student may think it will benefit him, unless the head of the department posesses...
...plan pursued by Prof. Palmer in making up the list of absent in English 7 is an excellent one and should be adopted by all the instructors whose courses are numerously attended. In sections like Sophomore Rhetoric, Natural History 4, French 1, and many others of a similiar size, much valuable time is lost in the useless occupation of calling the roll, In many of these courses fully ten minutes is wasted by the instructors in this wearisome work.The plan adopted by Prof. Palmer is to allow each member of the section to hand in a piece of paper...
...will meet the section in Lower Dane Hall, on Thursday, November 6, at the regular hour...
...next Mathematical Seminar will be held Thursday, Nov. 6, at 4. P. M. in University 19. There will be a short lecture on the calculation of the eclipses of the moon, followed by a discussion of the following subject.-The formation of the section of an oblique cone, particularly with reference to the determination of sections of given eccentricity...