Word: set
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Another comment on the "new fashioned education" concerns what is expected of teachers. The value that is set on text-books induce teacher to give up a great part of their time to writing. Dean Briggs regards this value as overrated. The first duty of the teacher is to teach, writing should be a secondary affair, and not something on which to estimate an instructors worth, as the new education seems to do. By encouraging independent writing and research, it is possible that we have been unfitting the teachers, as teachers, for the student...
...full seven weeks of the period in camp, was spent in running level lines, making chain, azimuth and compass surveys, laying out mining claims, taking soundings, and in plotting the country by the plane table, and transit and stadia methods. Besides the field work a day or two was set aside every week for computing and drawing maps...
...artificial bathing beach for the use of the general public is being laid out on the Cambridge side of the Charles river just above the Longwood bridge. The beach will be 800 feet in length and the breadth at low tide 180 feet. A raft has already been set out, with buoys and life-lines. During the summer, bathing houses will be provided free of charge and suits may be rented at a nominal cost. The now beach is a part of the Cambridge park system. It will be ready for use by the middle of next month...
...played an exceptionally strong and brilliant game. His smashes at the net were accurate and sure and he passed Ware time and again by swift strokes along the side lines. Ware at first attempted to lob, but could not avoid the fierce smashes of his opponent. In the last set he tried to pass Davis by strokes, but was even less successful...
...last number of the Advocate is hardly up to the standard set by the new board of editors. The stories, though most of them pleasing, show no particular depth. "The Unmaking of a Soldier," by Frank Simonds '00 is not a new story, but is fairly well told. "Four Characters," by W. Stevens '01, goes rather deeper than most of the Advocate's contributions. "A Morning's Catch," by F. M. Class '03, is a lively, pleasing story of the usual "storiette" type. "Pipe No. 29," by H. W. Bynner' 02, depicts vividly the Chinese character, but leaves...