Word: taught
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...only is the college degree of A B. delightfully indefinite, but it is worse than indefinite. For, while the public are taught to believe it a symbol of good work done in some of the departments of the college menu, in fact it often means nothing more than that its receiver has managed to remain four years at college without having been guilty of any violent disregard of college laws, and has shown during that time that he has tried to study some one or two subjects...
...lesson which the discourse taught was the omnipresence of God to men. Our Life is in God's and his life is in ours. One of the points of difference between Jewish doctrine and that of the church of Christ was that in the former the necessity was imposed of seeking the spirit by pilgrimages to some appointed and perhaps distant spot; in the latter that He whom Christ called Our Father is ever and always with us, and we may everywhere accept his present love. Every word of the Lord's Prayer shows the nearness...
...President Mark Hopkins has taught all of the 1727 living graduates of Williams College with the exception...
...need of systematic practice," says the Advocate, "was felt at first. Harvard was the first college to take up base-ball and consequently easily distanced her sister colleges, and also wrested the championship from the Lowell Club in the first attempt. Defeat taught the vanquished the necessity of discipline. The Williams College nine was under the care of two professional trainers for several weeks before the match at Worcester, and the powerful batting of the Lowell nine was the result of faithful attendance at the gymnasium last winter. Success on the other hand blinded the Harvard nine to the necessity...
...naturally to secure good teaching for those who may desire to take entrance examinations in science instead of in one of the classics. It is well, therefore, to note President Eliot's attitude on this question. He says, "A serious difficulty in the way of getting science well taught in secondary schools has been the lack of teachers who knew anything of inductive reasoning and experimental methods." One reason of this is that "good school methods of teaching the sciences have not yet been elaborated and demonstrated, and it is the first duty of university departments of science to remove...