Word: toed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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PHOTO. COM.The complimentary dinner to the foot ball eleven will take place at the Parker House, Thursday, December 5, at 7.30. Tickets are now on sale at Leavitt and Pierce's. All who have not signed should do so before noon today. No dress suits. Per order
In the last number of the Nation a correspondent protests against the indifference of our colleges to the study of pedagogy. He declares that class reports show that teaching is universally more popular than any profession excepting the law and medicine, and yet the profession of teaching receives absolutely no...
He deprecates the general quality of the instruction received in our colleges now, and asserts that in higher instruction there has been no advance in methods, "no universally recognized step in the science and art of teaching," that will compare with the improvement of methods in public school instruction. And...
The result of these methods on the student is that he obtains no lasting specific results from much of his college course. On the other hand he could not devote as much time to a course in manual training "without retaining all his life some special power in the direction...
The improvement, therefore, which the writer of the letter most desires to see in our college is an improvement in the department or instruction, and this improvement must come through a better knowledge and application of the laws of mental development. To which end he thinks that there should be...