Word: teachers
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...brotherhood both between faculty and students and among the students themselves. There was a strong desire on the part of the faculty, he said, to come into closer relations with the student body, to be friendly and helpful to them. As a pupil was of no use without a teacher, so the teacher was of no use without a pupil. The relation between them must be cordial. Among the students a great deal of good could be done by a man without his being conscious of it. The kindly word, the helpful act towards one less fortunately placed would often...
...3tDANCING. - Mr. L. Papanti, the well-known teacher, will give private lessons to students in all society dances, etiquette, etc. Will also form private classes. For terms and particulars apply at his residence, No. 5 Hilliard street, second house from Brattle street, Cambridge...
...their office of college pastor. He showed that this duty was the happiest part of the preacher's duty. That it was a misconception to suppose that only those students who intended to be ministers could profit by the opportunity of meeting the University preachers personally - not as teacher and student, but as man and man. The preachers did not belong to the disciplinary part of the University, he said. They did not appoint certain hours for meeting the students in order to discuss the duties of the ministry with them; but rather to talk to them...
Even as a teacher he is often too much of a pedagogue, and is apt to forget that poetry instructs not by precept and inculcation, but by hints and indirections and suggestions, by inducing a mood rather than by enforcing a principle or a moral. He sometimes impresses our fancy with the image of a schoolmaster whose class-room commands an unrivalled prospect of cloud and mountain, of all the pomp and prodigality of heaven and earth. From time to time he calls his pupils to the window, and makes them see what, without the finer intuition of his eyes...
Gentlemen of the University, you have here a noble endowment. Your founders and teachers have noble aims, nothing less than such a course of instruction as shall develop all the powers and fulfil all the capacities of the soul. But remember that your highest duty to your University begins when your immediate connection with it ceases,- that every scholar is bound to become in turn a teacher, a missionary of the higher culture, showing its beauty in his life no less than in the product of his mind, carrying that lamp of enthusiasm which you have kindled here into...