Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...LAMPOON.It is proposed that the Yale-Princeton game this spring be played on the N. Y. polo grounds instead of in Princeton or New Haven, as it is thought the receipts will be larger...
...literature? The passages set are mostly disconnected and uninteresting, and the ability to recite them calls forth an effort of the mind that might be better applied to something more valuable and of more literary worth. Detached passages are given whose few paragraphs in no wise represent a connected thought or anything in particular. No good or pleasure results; the process degenerates into a mere effort of memory, and the mind soon relinquishes its hold of what was learned with so little interest. Let any one take the selections given to be committed in our French courses and he will...
...instructors wish to excite an increased interest in this regard among their students, let them make a decided change in the character of the selections given. Let these selections represent more truly the best thought and highest flights in French literature by giving us passages from those leading poets and dramatists who have given the world of French belles-lettres its greatest glory and finest expression. This done, the student may then feel that what he learns is of some worth and use to him, instead of dry matter which he hastens to forget after examination. Attention may also...
...acquire useful knowledge in certain subjects by such means, without having that knowledge afterwards clinched by the painful process of examination. This result can only come if students exhibit in ways more or less direct the positive and active effects of these lectures on their own knowledge and thoughts. For the present, at least, these lectures form an interesting relief from the irksome grind of formal courses. As the Chronicle says on this subject, "New lines of thought are followed; old ones are made more attractive, and a new spirit is imparted both to scholar and professor." A new subject...
...life at one institution. He passes one or two semesters at this university and at that, and, perhaps, in the course of his studies, attends half a dozen universities, thus studying under the most famous professors in the branches he is pursuing, gaining the direct influence of the best thought of Germany, besides attaining a wide experience in all parts of his fatherland. It will be a great thing for American scholarship when the youth of America are able to do the same - spending, say, in the course of their university career, successive terms in New England, the Middle States...