Word: instructors
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...know whether it was an unusually hearty dinner or fatigue from grinding up metaphysics that put me to sleep one afternoon and gave me this dream. I have been able to trace most of it to the influence of metaphysics. It seemed to be February again, and our instructor had told us to procure tickets at the bookstore for a series of lectures three times a week for the rest of the year on the "Manly Art of Self-Defence," by Professor W. Hamilton, of England. It was a rare chance to procure scientific knowledge of the subject; and Lister...
SCENE, History Recitation. Instructor and dig in the foreground; populace asleep...
...Metaphysics. A sort of little drawer had been fitted in the back of a seat in such a manner that the work could hardly be detected; applying a chisel, it was opened, a penny and piece of paper were found; the latter bore the following: "Transmittendum. Whereas our instructor is fully persuaded he does not exist, he must 'see through a glass darkly', therefore I most respectfully request the finder to present this money to him for the purpose of buying a new pair of spectacles." The name of the donor was signed, but it had better be omitted here...
...Sophomore and Junior years there are certain required studies to which professors are assigned by the Faculty. To have these instructors elected by the students would, of course, be absurd, and is too illusory a hope to be cherished a moment in the undergraduate mind. Since these studies are required, it is presumably a fact that the Faculty deem them important elements in a gentleman's education. They, therefore, ought to take pains to insure to every graduate more than a mere smattering. Everybody allows that such instructors as are appointed to have charge of these studies should consult...
...Instructor (to Fresh. who cannot transfer The king flees into the present tense). Insert has, and what will it become? Fresh. (confidently). The king has flees. - Yale Record...