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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wishes to receive contributions of cast off clothing shoes, rubbers, books and c., for use in missionary work among colored people at Talledega, Alabama, in charge of Frederick Reed, (Harvard '82). All who can contribute anything please send postal to J. B. Lewis 67-C. H. or A. B. Seymour, 12 Farwell place. A prompt response will enable us to make one shipment before Christmas...
...wishes to receive contributions of cast off clothing, shoes, rubbers, books, and c., for use in missionary work among colored people at Talledega, Alabama, in charge of Frederick Reed, (Harvard '82). All who can contribute anything please send postal to J. B. Lewis, 67 C. H., or A. B. Seymour, 12 Farwell place. A prompt response will enable us to make one shipment before Christmas...
...Library in Gore Hall is open Sundays during term-time from 1 till 5 o'clock for the use of members of the university only...
...present methods, what good would it do to teach the old methods? Take, for instance, the study of Natural Science. The method of teaching it twenty years ago was worse than useless. How long is it that a reasonable method of teaching natural science has been in use? About fifteen years at the outside. So in the twenty years I have been at Harvard I have seen the whole method of teaching Latin and Greek changed-fundamentally changed-as I believe to the enormous advantage of the men who both study and study and teach these languages...
Professor Shaler's article in the current number of the Atlantic Monthly is indeed interesting. He makes some striking remarks on the difference between the strain caused by mental and physical exercise, showing by the use of statistics how very great is the mental strain under which the teacher or literary man labors. The agriculturist, the artisan and the professional man in general who is not engaged in teaching the youth, are accustomed to continuous toil for at least ten hours daily six days in the week. With the instructor it is quite different; about one third of the year...