Word: points
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first Sophomore class smoker of the year will be held in the Dining Room of the Union this evening at 9 o'clock. Every member of the class is invited and should make it a special point to attend, as this is the first opportunity there has been for the entire class to come together this year. Refreshments will be served and there will be informal singing. R. T. Fisher '12 will speak...
...venture to say that you expected me to speak to you from the view point of the teacher and not from the view point of that other side of education dealing with the administration of the college. Those who hold the offices of administration, while they are dealing with the art of education, hold, nevertheless, a special position with regard to the profession, just as the judge on the bench holds a special position with regard to the profession of law. When a teacher goes in for administration he degrades both the office to which he succeeds and the profession...
...student life. What I wish to consider at the present moment is the scope and character of the relation between the faculty and the students. Are these such as to draw forth the best energies and finest attempts of a man? In other words, viewed from the student's point of view, is the profession worth while...
Such a plan will not make a radical change in the habits of the ordinary student, whose selection of courses is more sensible than most persons are willing to believe. The students who will be affected are the ones who are pursuing specialties to the point of narrowness, and the loafers whose exploiting of the elective system leads to mastery of no subject. The specialist will be required to broaden out; the student in pursuit of "snap" courses will be required to concentrate. Both processes will tend to the same end--the turning out of well-rounded men, equally ready...
...appropriate that the announcement of the completion of this building, which you have so admirably conceived, should be made in the presence of the whole University, for it symbolizes a stage in the development of the dental profession which has existed for some time and has now reached a point where it is worthy of commemoration...