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Another comment on the "new fashioned education" concerns what is expected of teachers. The value that is set on text-books induce teacher to give up a great part of their time to writing. Dean Briggs regards this value as overrated. The first duty of the teacher is to teach, writing should be a secondary affair, and not something on which to estimate an instructors worth, as the new education seems to do. By encouraging independent writing and research, it is possible that we have been unfitting the teachers, as teachers, for the student...
Bishop Henry C. Potter, of New York, preached the Baccalaureate sermon to the members of the Senior class yesterday afternoon in Appleton Chapel, from the text: "Peter said unto him, thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money." Acts VIII, 20. He said in part...
...They have taught and blessed, and the marvelous tokens of this transforming presence straightway became manifest in them. Simon sees and wonders at it and eager to rouse a kindred ardor says: "Give me this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost." The text is St. Peter's answer...
...when I have said this there still remains to be declared that other side of this whole matter toward which my text directs us. Money is a power. It may be used for the best purposes, and just as easily for the worst. It is like many other powers with which God has endowed us, that it may bring within our reach much that would otherwise be beyond it. It is unlike those other powers, in that, while they must oftenest earn their desires, it may as often buy them. In our time we are seeing as never before...
...been made a member of the Department of Education and will conduct a new course, Education 10B, on the methods and equipment of a teacher of German in the secondary schools. Among the subjects to be treated in the lectures and discussions are the following: the choice of text-books; the annotation of texts; the teachers' sources of information; and the disciplinary and practical value of the study of German and its relation to the study of English...