Word: topics
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Three of the four "College Kodaks" are good. The fourth is, however, on the well worn Memorial-Hall-waiter topic. Certainly it fulfills the suggestion made in the CRIMSON'S criticism of the last Advocate, that the "Kodaks" be confined to familiar college matters. This one is familiar with a vengeance...
...most general topic of conversation last evening was concerning the lack of a sufficient number of tickets for the Harvard side of the field next Saturday. Complaints come in from all sides that men can get no tickets. It is very unfortunate, but we do not see that there is not enough room at Hampden Park. We fail to see any lack of judgment on the part of the Harvard management; for, certainly no one would suspect that more than about eighteen hundred tickets would be sold in Cambridge. It was necessary to have tickets for sale at New York...
...have been all the more keenly appreciated. If anything could be added to make the occasion of greater interest it has been found in the subject, "The Choice of Studies." A talk by President Eliot on any subject would be sure to attract a large audience, but on this topic his words will be listened to with unusual attention. No student can have his choice of studies for the remainder of the term so absolutely determined that he will not be glad to receive advice from one better fitted to give it than any other officer or any instructor...
ENGLISH C AND D.- Topic 1 under history, The Council of Constance, has been added to the list of topics excluded from the pamphlet...
...teaching. A graduate of only one or two years' standing can not fulfil these conditions. He must be unfit for any part of an instructor's work, and especially unsuited for elementary courses, which require a clear view of general principles, rather than accurate knowledge of some special topic. He must be inexperienced in lecturing, conducting recitations and answering questions, and in judging of a student's work. He cannot command the confidence of the men he is teaching. It seems ill advised to place such a man in the difficult position of instructor over a large course...