Word: timing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...whole, we strongly advise any one who wishes to enjoy a hearty laugh after dinner, or, indeed, at any other time, to read Sandford and Merton in its new form...
...would seem that the facilities offered at the Bussey Institution for instruction in agriculture are not taken advantage of or appreciated. For we learn that "no small part of the time of the instructors has been spent in supervising the construction of buildings, aqueducts, reservoirs, and roadways; in fitting and furnishing greenhouses, laboratories, and lecture-rooms, and in laying out grounds." This institution recently received an endowment of $100,000. But notwithstanding the improvements made and being made, it has not succeeded in inducing a single student to offer himself for the three years' course in agriculture. This fact seems...
...tutors will pay more attention to the system and the matter of their lectures. For the sake of exact scholarship, many things must always be given in the class-room of interest only to the specialist; if others find these notes too soporific for endurance, they will have their time for more general study in their rooms, such as the tutors may advise...
There will be an opportunity for continuous application to one subject, and for a deeper interest than usual, which shall lead men to thorough investigation. At present this is impossible, when all the time is divided among eight or ten different studies, no one of which is looked at oftener than three times a week...
...little reason for believing, with Dr. McCosh, that the students will be able to prepare themselves for the examinations and still be absent from Cambridge for weeks at a time, without thinking of college work. Now, most find it necessary to be pretty attentive to their tasks; if there is a change, more work rather than less will be necessary...