Word: students
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Although the Yale athletic managers have been in communication for some time with the Athletic Committee on the subject of a renewal of athletic relations between the two universities, the committee has been waiting for the Yale student body to make some advances on the subject before any agreement is made on behalf of Harvard...
...Faculty members may not only furnish references to works on the subject chosen and give material and information, but may criticize the speeches of the debaters, change and amend their arguments and general plan of debate, and even select a team of Faculty members to actually debate with the student team, and lecture to them on the subject chosen for debate. Yale graduates, not connected with the university, who have become authorities on the question for discussion, may also come to New Haven and coach for as long a time as they...
This practice of Faculty coaching, Harvard believes, leads to a perversion of the purpose of the debates. With unlimited Faculty assistance the student speakers become mere mouthpieces through which the Faculty is heard and the debate developes into a contest between the Faculties of the two universities, not between the students. It is as if in an intercollegiate chess match each member of the two teams should have behind his chair an expert chess player to plan his moves for him; and he himself should do nothing but move the pieces from one square to another...
...suggestion is often made that the student should plan his work in advance in a way to obviate this interference of courses. But it is manifestly impossible for Freshmen to decide on eighteen courses. He can plan in a general way what line of study he would like to pursue, but beyond that he cannot go. He is necessarily affected by each succeeding year and by each course he takes. The difficulty of choice of subjects is increased by the fact that many of the best courses are given only every second or third year. The result of this...
TUTORING in Mathematics. Preparatory or college work. Graduate student. Fellow in Mathematics, University of Chicago, 1895. Experienced...