Word: seem
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...There seem to be three ways in which electives are carried on, - one by lectures from the professor, another by lectures from the students themselves, and still another by setting lessons and having the students recite, to which is added now and then a lecture by the instructor. Which of these methods is the best I will not attempt to say. When the lectures are delivered by the instructor, the average students, in fact I may say all except a few of the most faithful, are apt to neglect the daily work, and simply to cram their knowledge just before...
...around each Monday morning and collect the petitions. It is a simple task, for, although at first he must knock at each door, he would soon learn what rooms he needed specially to visit, and could tell almost by intuition the men who had petitions. This may seem but a trifling suggestion, but as it concerns the comfort of so many we gladly make...
...unfortunate enough to have three examinations in two consecutive days, and of one who has five in three days. We fully appreciate the fact that it is not easy to make out the schedule, and that no arrangement, however good, would be perfectly satisfactory to everybody. These cases, however, seem to deserve especial attention, inasmuch as the consecutive examinations are of course no test of whether the man has worked faithfully during the past term. We do not believe that any one, however thorough his knowledge, could do justice to five subjects in five successive mornings and afternoons. The test...
...models in the scientific lecture-rooms would be a constant instruction through the eye; pictures and bronzes in the classical and fine arts rooms would be both useful and ornamental ; or at least they could be finished so that pictures and statuary, should the future provide any, would not seem out of place in them. Other suggestions might perhaps be offered, but even if these few are attended to, we think a great deal of good will be done. If we are to have new recitation-rooms, they ought to be made with all the improvements that...
...persons who are careful never to express disapprobation at foolish or vicious acts or speeches should imagine that it cannot be done in a gentlemanly way. They assume that it is necessary to "blurt out" abusive censure, forgetting that censure is often clearly expressed simply by silence. Their argument seems to be that in any case they would give offence, and no gentleman should give offence, - a principle the folly of which is exceeded only by its harmfulness. For, when principle is at stake, as in buying fraudulent examination-papers or talking ridiculously about getting drunk, unless...