Word: thinge
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cornell have as yet received sufficient trial to prove the ultimate success of a system of complete co-education, still such institutions as the Harvard Annex and Girton, young as they are, have proved that the opposition urged to the higher education of women must soon be a thing of the past. The general impression seems to be that Columbia will make some sort of provision for women, and we hope soon to be able to welcome at least a Columbia "Annex...
...return to our own position again, we see the same thing partially true here, but not to its fullest extent. The mutual advantages of such intimacy seem to me illimitable and extremely desirable, but is such a system of life practicable at Harvard? I think it is, at least to a far greater degree than is now existent. The system of separate colleges is not necessary, but perhaps the separation of dormitories might partially effect the same object, especially if more uniform rates of rent were secured. Some one may object that in Germany no such college division exists...
Prosaic, cold, dull thing of lead...
...They are very few, not many of them in our college curriculum; and if a professor can't hold the interest of his class while lecturing he had better use a poor text-book. We might learn the whole thing in the time it takes to translate our notes and copy them. What do you say to getting up a petition to have some of these fellows stop lecturing...
...professors at Yale has introduced the lecture system of recitations, if such a thing can be, in which "the student prepares himself on the prescribed lesson, but at the appointed hour does not recite it. On the contrary, the professor recites - that is, he goes over it and elucidates it, making it fully comprehensible for the dullest." At the conclusion of each month a strict examination is given on the work gone over during the month. The plan is said to meet with much favor both with the faculty and students. The plan seems to be very similar...