Word: instructions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...informed that "the president of a great university should occupy in politics the position of a judge": we affirm that President Eliot does hold the position of a judge, but we respectfully suggest that it is the duty of a judge to "instruct the jury...
...last year of college life serves to fix the mental activity of the coming graduate more than any other of the four undergraduate years. It is, therefore, highly important that a selection of senior courses should include those which, at the same time that they instruct, serve also to polish the student's education. Such courses are pre-eminently those which are stamped with the individuality of the instructor, and which, therefore, are most likely to come under the head of advanced electives. Take, for the sake of an example, Philosophy 4 and Fine Arts 4, courses the life...
...happy vein, and the pictures are as quaint and old fashioned as the fables they illustrate. It is just the book to take up after an evening of study, before going to bed; for the fables are short and pointed, and while they amuse, they at the same time instruct without tiring the reader...
...what is there in store for us cannot be useless. It is earnestly to be hoped that our faculty will heed this call on the part of the college men, and respond by arranging for them a series of lectures calculated at the same time to stimulate and instruct. The plan deserves at least a trial...
...Peabody, the 147th Psalm was read responsively. Mr. W. N. Fessenden, the noted tenor, now singing with the National Opera Company, sang the tenor solo, "Salve Regina," by Will Cox, after which Dr. A. P. Peabody read a selection of Scripture and spoke on the following verse: "I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou should go; I will guide thee with mine eye." The main thought of his remarks was: Good is always with us; His eye sees us always, and He knows all our acts and thoughts. Be sure that His eye rests upon...