Word: talk
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have also felt a certain tendency in France lately," continued Professor Levy Bruhl, "to reduce the number of lecture courses and to devote more time to the individual. The student should have an opportunity to talk with his instructor and to learn at first hand the answers to the questions that trouble him. In this closer relationship, there is much to be gained both by pupil and teacher...
...examine if it will, but on a saner basis. Instead of finding out whether or not a man has read so many books of Caesar, Cicero, and Virgil, let them discover if he can read and write Latin intelligently. From the individual's point of view, his ability to talk French well is certainly more inducive to the continued study of French literature and thought than the knack of setting down verbatim the translation of four or five prescribed books...
...evening of November 14, Mr. William Iyins, Print Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts in New York City, will lecture at the Dunster House Bookshop, on the subject of "Woodcuts." The talk is intended primarily for members of the Fine Arts courses, and it is to them that invitations will be sent...
...purpose of the Dunster House Bookshop in offering this lecture is to make a step towards giving members of the University an opportunity to hear prominent men talk on such subjects as are not usually touched on by lecturers coming to Cambridge,--on subjects about which data and information are slim...
Although the first lecture will be for invited guests, in the future all those who have a desire to attend any particular talk need only apply at the Bookshop and their names will be placed on the invitation list...