Word: stilling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Winsor '93, Corbett '94, Dickinson '94, Lowell '94, Paine '94, Linfield '94, Harding '94, Quigley '94, Whittemore '95, Manning '95, Dodge '95, Washburn Gr., Whiting Sp. The men have been able to practise outside only on one occasion, but the soft ground rendered the practise useless. "Tim" Keefe is still coaching the pitchers, and some of the men have made wonderful improvements in the past two weeks. Some provisional engagements have been made for games during the April recess and definite dates will be agreed upon very soon...
...second crew where he can get more attention from the coach. His work shows plainly that he is an old hand at it. Ninde and Slade are at work in the pair-oar on the river. Waters has been placed on the first crew. His work is still pretty crude but he improves. Acton is at work again. He recovered sooner than was feared at the time he was taken ill. Altogether he lost nearly two weeks which shows seriously in his rowing. However, he is doing as well as could be expected of a new man. At present there...
...struck with the improvements made in the requirements that he is rather apt to stop there and not consider whether or no the regulations might be made so as to raise the standard higher. Vastly more significant as the present A. M. degree may be, it is still below what it should be, - a mark of rather extraordinary learning. Today the intelligent student can distribute the four extra courses required for his A. M. degree through his college course, and become a Master of Arts at the same time that he graduates. This makes the degree about the same...
...born on March 28, 1592, and was one of the greatest educational reformers that ever lived. Though living and writing in the seventeenth century, he was possessed with nineteenth century ideas and some of the forms which he sought to introduce into the schools of his time, are still urged by progressive educators, though only recently finding favor and adoption. The following extract from the English version of the proposal of these celebrations gives one a glimpse of his work and character: "Born in Moravia, working amongst Czechs, Germans, English, Dutch, Swedes and Hungarians, with friends in France and Italy...
...calendar of lectures to be given during the second half-year to those interested in the subject of teaching. There have been lectures on special branches of this subject during the first half-year which have proved eminently successful. The program for the second half-year, however, offers a still broader field for information. Instead of a single course of public lectures of a rather advanced nature, there is to be given a course by Professor White on the elementary methods of instruction, also courses addressed to teachers by Professor Davis and Professor Goodale. Of the three courses, that given...