Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...utility of my proposition. I affirm that no man ought to be allowed to choose his own electives. The professor of phrenology should do it for him. Only picture to yourself a student having his head manipulated by my ideal professor, who thus comments on the capacities of his subject: "Memory, pretty fair; reverence, none; mechanical ability (gouging, boring holes, etc.), good; self-esteem, very low; sensibilities, none. Young man, I 'll go no further; you are especially adapted to the dental school, and I earnestly advise you to enter at once...
...indeed," cried he, "and I will run instantly to address the Faculty on the subject before their meeting is dismissed...
...subject for the second forensic of the second section of the Senior class is as follows: "Is it true that, as the boundaries of science are enlarged, the empire of the imagination is diminished?" References: Hazlitt's Lectures on the English Poets, Lecture I. Edinburgh Review, Vol. 21, art., Madame de Stael sur la Litterature. Christian Examiner, Vol. 24, art., Influence of Christianity and Civilization on Epic Poetry. The forensic is to be handed in on the third Tuesday in January...
...Much time and labor are expended on the subject catalogue. What is the result? Except as regards those books easiest to find, it is a failure; and students or others must go without what they want, unless they apply to one of the two assistants who understand the subject catalogue. As an example: suppose one wished to find a translation of a French play, which appears in English under a new title and with the translator's name in place of the author's. The student does not know this new title or the name of the translator...
Although Sumner frequently cut prayers, especially in his Senior year, he attended recitations regularly. His only recorded interview with the Faculty was on the subject of dress. The regulations prescribed a waistcoat of "black mixed, or black; or, when of cotton or linen fabric, of white." Sumner persisted in wearing a buff-colored waistcoat, and, when summoned, stoutly maintained that it was white, or, at least, white enough for all practical purposes. He won his point, and the subject was dropped...