Word: instructors
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...says that I failed to understand its editorial because my intelligence has "little in common with our [its] own." The compliment is obvious, and is the more pleasing because evidently unintended. My mistake was a natural one, for I supposed that an editorial criticism, however severe, upon a popular instructor would hardly be given a form more direct than that of a "suggestion," and would be expressed in civil terms; and I also supposed that severity in any editorial was not considered identical with ungentlemanly insinuations and abuse. Since I have been shown the error of my second supposition...
...much has been said lately about Junior Forensics, perhaps it is a good opportunity to mention one other complaint which has been made. At present there is not, and there does not pretend to be, any instruction in this department. All that the instructor does is to assign a mark to each forensic and hand it back to the writer, giving in the class an abstract of what was written on each of the subjects. A student cannot find out what mark has been given him, nor are there any remarks on the returned forensic to let him know what...
...other men. But if, for some inscrutable reason, this favor cannot be granted, the separate marks given to each forensic should at least be announced when the last forensic has been examined, and not merely the average on all. We make this request with the more confidence, since the instructor has shown himself willing to give as much benefit as he can to those who enjoy his instructions...
...Freshman year, but he was not. He formed a club with some of his friends, and entered into negotiations with the college printer. It was rather expensive, but better than going over the year again. Strange to say, he was not caught by the instructor's making a slight change in the paper just before examination; he was on the lookout for just that very thing, and noticed it immediately...
ALLOW me to call attention to a new grievance in that fertile field of fault finding, the marking system. If an instructor is allowed to send warnings to students for cutting recitations in his elective, the privilege of voluntary recitations, for which the Junior class has to pay so dear, is practically abolished. Recitations are not really voluntary so long as there is a penalty of any sort for absence, and when an instructor, after finding a man absent for several recitations, sends him a notice that he is not likely to get through the course unless his attendance improves...