Word: subjectivity
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Regulations: "No student is permitted to take any books or papers into the examination room except by express direction of the instructor. No communication is permitted between students in the examination room on any subject whatever...
Regulations: "No student is permitted to take any books or papers into the examination room except by express direction of the instructor. No communication is permitted between students in the examination room on any subject whatever...
...Smith of Dorchester addressed the St. Paul's Society last night. He took his subject from the story of Jesus washing His disciples' feet. He said: Some people have very peculiar ideas of humility. It seems to some that to be humble is constantly to disparage one's self, to deny any good quality or talent that one may possess; but this is rather dishonesty than humility...
Another strange idea of humility is the thought that all a man can do is worthless because others have done better. Thus a student may feel that what he knows of a subject is of no use because his master knows more. This again is not humility. Humility is the feeling that we are not too good for any work that we may be called to do. A man who is willing to do anything necessary, who is not ashamed to turn his hand to the most menial tasks is humble. In the life of Christ we find perfect humility...
Science, history and art are introduced into the course and every subject is made to have some bearing on every other as far as is possible. The result is that the scholars become well interested in their work, and in a school where five years ago the most experienced teachers failed to keep order, the effect is such that if now all the teachers should be absent the scholars would actually go through the morning alone doing all their duties quietly and well...