Word: books
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Ruskin's approval, in preparing a compendium of "Modern Painters," intended to contain the substance of its teaching in regard to the principles and practice of art. It is to be considered as the final and authoritative form in which Mr. Ruskin desires the essential doctrines of his book preserved, as he does not intend to reprint in full the "Modern Painters...
...practice of reserving books at the Library is a good one, but it is carried to such an excess by some instructors that it is fast becoming a nuisance. So many copies of the texts required in studying for Honors are reserved, that those who have occasion to work outside of the Library complain that they cannot get any editions. It is useful to have enough copies of a play reserved to enable each of the candidates that are at work in the Library to have a book; but when an instructor puts every good edition on the reference shelves...
Secondly. I give out questions in class, and when students ask me where to look for information I tell them to look in a book...
...practice of some of our instructors of marking on each examination-book the hour at which the student leaves the examination, is one for which we can see no excuse. There is no good reason why the time which it takes each student to pass his examination should be taken into account in assigning his mark. If he is unable to finish the paper on account of its length, by all means let allowance be made for this fact; but we do not see why his mark should be lowered because he gets through with all that he is able...
...PHILIP, having exhausted the scanty advantages of Oxford, followed the example of the great Flavius Josephus, and went to Cambridge. The records of his life at this place are scanty. Devotion to study seems to have injured his health, for the college book sets him down as "greaviuslie trubbled by ye cattarrhhe in ye Wintrie Wether." We find, also, that he was on terms of intimacy with the leading men of the college, especially with a certain Decanus, - a man whom history passes over in silence, but who apparently was an instructor in ethics. This worthy man often invited young...