Word: statement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that a poor instructor in the best of courses may do him harm. How often we have heard students say of a certain course that 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...
...earlier pages, and bibliographies are inserted at the beginning and end. Several chapters have had matter added to them, and one, on the "Future of the Laboring Classes," has been entirely re-written. "In some cases, "Prof. Laughlin states in his preface, "I have omitted Mr. Mill's statement entirely, and put in its stead a simpler form of the same exposition which I believed would more easily be grasped by a student." These in brief are the principal features of the new work. While the book is founded on Mr. Mill's work, there is so much that...
...gentleman who writes the communication in another column in regard to foot ball says "all flings at the referee are but cowardly utterances." It would be far from our intentions to dispute this statement; in fact we fully coincide with him in this opinion. But the gentleman seems to imply that there were "flings at the referee" printed in our columns. In regard to this, we wish to say a few words in defence. In Thursday's issue we expressed ourselves to the effect that "unsteadiness, aided by decisions of the referee cost us the game." In this phrase...
...session, has been received with general satisfaction by the students. The trouble with this committee last year was the impossibility of getting its opinion, as a whole, on any question of importance, without long and vexatious delays. Personal application to one member of the committee would lead to one statement, and the same application to another member would result in a very different statement. It was this seeming want of union in the committee itself which did much to inspire distrust among the students. The present arrangement, however, will prevent any recurrence of this trouble. On Thursdays...
...senior class has the same right. Indeed, if the senior class alone carried no such transparency, its vote would be more conspicuous by its absence than it will be by its presence. The appearance of the four classes in succession, each announcing its vote, is simply another statement in detail of what the total vote indicates. Now, the intention of the senior class to carry its vote on a transparency was announced in the Boston papers. By their silence, the Republican managers evidently approve of this action, or what is equivalent, are willing to ignore it, in order to have...