Word: slightly
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...position in all good colleges. Up to within a few years ago, and even now to a large extent, the study of education was viewed in the same way. It was thought that the only education necessary for a teacher was a thorough training in his subject and some slight professional training in a normal school. That every one should study the art of education is a novel idea. But it is certainly necessary that every one should understand the training of children and the best ways of teaching them. This, people are ready to grant, but still cannot realize...
Chess and Whist Club.The following rules have been adopted by the Chess and Whist Club to govern the whist tournament. In duplicate whist without "boards" or other system, some slight modifications are necessary...
...change in the Medical department from a three-year course to a four-year course has resulted in a slight loss in the total enrollment. There are 796 men in this department. In the Law department there are 228 men enrolled, showing a marked increase over last year. In the Dental department there are 231 students, in the Philosophical, 154. The Auxiliary Medical, Veterinary, Hygiene and Graduate Law departments bring the enrollment of the University up to 2223, without allowance for names counted more than once. This total is a little less than that of the year before...
...Copeland complained that outside of Jonson's ballad, "Drink to me only with thine Eyes," almost no works of the minor dramatists of the Elizabethan age are read nowadays. The plays of Jonson, Webster, Hayward and the rest, are many of them excellent reading, and a slight acquaintance with them will almost always bring with it the desire for greater familiarity. Not only are they thus interesting in themselves, but they form the best background for Shakespeare's works, and it is a shame that we are content to take him without...
...elevation of the standard of citizenship. The "Spoils System," as opposed to the "Merit System," is, on the face of it, an evil. As an evil, it calls for active opposition from intelligent citizens, and college men have no right to turn their backs upon it and slight it as beneath their notice. The suggestion in the communication is excellent and we hope that many of the students will...