Word: talking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is serious talk at Amherst of establishing a "navy" there and entering actively into boating...
...little increased by attendance upon lectures or by perusal of books on art. Nothing can make up for the absence of the actual picture by which alone the impression of form and color can be conveyed. The present modes of instruction at Harvard may help a student to talk about art, but fails to give him a definite understanding of the subject. With a picture or series of pictures before him, the student may gain in a few minutes a better idea of the principles of art than the readings of columns can convey; if the two methods of reading...
...take up the excellent suggestion made by one of your correspondents last week, about a petition for the removal of the prohibition on professional practice-games. This neglect is not very complimentary to that management, considering the vital importance of this matter. I fail to see how we can talk about indifference in the University at large when one of our management is so slothful and indifferent...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- There has been some talk lately among the professors and instructors about the advisability of abolishing the mid-year examinations in favor of periodical hour examinations...
...What likelihood would there be, in the present state of college opinion, of such students being sent to Coventry, dropped from the various associations with which they might be connected, and made to feel generally they had disgraced themselves in the public eye? It is all very well to talk about the individual's honor needing no guarantee. But the only place where it would be practically wise to ask for no guarantee would be a place in which individuals who had no honor would be sure of disgrace. Our college is I fear, not exactly such a place...