Word: statement
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Lord Bacon's definition of education, one approximates the true theory. Education, he says, is the cultivation of a just and legitimate familiarity between mind and things. Professor Loisette advocates what he has named the analytic synthetic method. In memorizing a passage, he reduces it to the simplest statement and then by gradually adding the modifying phrases he learns the whole by association. This is the secret of his system - association - which, combined with careful attention, insures at least an improved memory...
...list of the electives for the present term, which are offered to the members of the three upper classes at Princeton, and also the number of men who are registered in the various branches. Some of the opportunities and advantages presented at that college may be formed from this statement...
...editorial in last Tuesday's CRIMSON places before the University, and particularly before the members of the religious societies, the preliminary agitation in regard to a building in which the religious societies might find a more suitable home than they have at present. The editorial is a forcible statement of the opinion that the building should contain a home not only for the religious interests of the students, but also for the more serious of the literary societies. Many men feel that the University would be better served if such a building were intended primarily for the religious interests...
...book is exactly what the sub-title implies and, after giving a general statement of what the University is as a whole and in parts, the college Scientific and Graduate Schools and the six Professional Schools are discussed separately. A list of the requirements for admission is given and chapters are devoted to information about the Summer Schools, the Astronomical Observatory, the Library, the Laboratories, the Museums, Religious Exercises of the University, the Lecture-rooms and their Uses, the Athletic Buildings and Fields, and Prizes. In the Conclusion, a table of the schools and colleges from which men have entered...
...terms. This kind of writing has one objection, however; it is apt to be mistrusted. What Mr. Bolles has done is past mistrust. Taking the facts of the University as they are, he has merely recorded them in such a way that they will be understood by everyone. His statement of the position of a poor man at Harvard, for example, is at once most explicit and just. The University needs no more justification before the public than this. If people can only recognize, as the Secretary has tried to make them do, what the true nature of Harvard...