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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Preshman Physics. Tutoring in this course by an experienced teacher. Apply to E. C. Pfeiffer, 33 Lawrence Hall, Brattle...
Preshman Physics. Tutoring in this course by an experienced teacher. Apply to E. C. Pfeiffer, 33 Lawrence Hall, Brattle...
...great fault in our schools lies in the teachers frequently taking for granted that a pupil has a satisfactory knowledge of a subject of which in truth he knows only the first rudiments. The teacher does not feel sufficiently called upon to become acquainted with the exact state of his pupil's knowledge. So it comes about that or promotion into a higher class, a boy is allowed to give up entirely some branch of study which is strictly relegated to the "elementary" departments. A study which suffers more than any other from this absurd neglect is geography. Because "reading...
...personal history of some of the students was thrilling. The oldest of the two Russians, a man of middle age, was a medical student. As a teacher, a lay doctor, and the propagandist of liberal ideas, he wandered over Russia for ten years. He had seen with pitying eye the misery and suffering of his native land under the despotic rule of the Czar. He had followed his own brother, banished without trial, in his weary march to Siberia, until driven away from the band of exiles by the brutal blows of the guards. Soon he expected to take...
...Rochester men get better instruction than we do. But they forget that a man is no better simply because you chose to call him "professor." If the Rochester "professors" are not above the ordinary Harvard tutor in education and ability, what is the advantage in having him for a teacher...