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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...seeming inability at times to catch and make prominent the important points is one of the disadvantages; but a still greater and more annoying one is the practice of dragging into a lecture every little insignificant fact possible, taking an hour or more for what might be delivered in ten or fifteen minutes, and doing all this in order to give the instructor the impression that the lecturer is working night and day on his course, and deserves his good-will, - deliberate "swiping." The third method is little more than a common school-boy recitation, and needs no comment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A FEW HINTS ON HISTORY. | 2/23/1878 | See Source »

...combine the three, at the same time making certain restrictions? If, for example, a rule were made that no student's lectures should last longer than ten or twenty minutes, or if the instructor were to set a time for each lecture, according to the importance of the subject given, the student himself would gain fully as great a benefit as he does now, and his auditors, in most cases at least, a much greater. If, in connection with this, the instructor would give lectures now and then on matters that seem to him of special importance or of special...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A FEW HINTS ON HISTORY. | 2/23/1878 | See Source »

PROFESSOR BOWEN will take Mr. Pa'mer's place in Philosophy 1 until the latter's return. Members of the elective will prepare the first ten pages of the eighth Entretien of Malebranche for the recitation on Monday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 2/23/1878 | See Source »

...heated and ventilated, after all that has been said on the subject, we may reasonably expect. There are other points, however, that may be overlooked by those who have not profited by bitter experience. The windows, for instance, in the University recitation-rooms are, in nine cases out of ten, so arranged as to throw the sunlight right into the faces of the class, and to envelop the instructor in a deep shadow, whence, like the Homeric gods, he can see without being seen. Unpleasant as it is to be unable to distinguish the instructor's expression...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUGGESTIONS FOR SEVER HALL. | 2/8/1878 | See Source »

...powerful style and swing which seem to make the severest labor mere pastime. The new men are stout, vigorous fellows; but they bucket, catch behind the others, do not go back far enough, hurry forward again, and waste more strength in one stroke than the old men do in ten. To row well, as to do well anything worth doing, requires long, faithful practice. If our readers don't believe it, let them go down to the boat-house...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CREWS. | 12/20/1877 | See Source »

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