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Since, however, it is necessary to have some method of testing prescribed reading, if it is to be anything more than a farce, it seems desirable that the system of conferences and classroom papers already extensively in use should be further extended, and should, so far as possible, supplant this mechanical writing of unprofitable reports. A paper written in class has at least the merit of demanding some general knowledge of the subject, and an oral conference serves both to clarify and fix the ideas of the student, and to assure the instructor that the student is taking an intelligent...
...time, although on a narrower scale and a lower plane than we aspire to at the present day. It was so small that the students were all well acquainted with one another, or at least with their classmates. They were constantly thrown together, in chapel, in the classroom, in the dining hall, in the college dormitories, in their simple forms of recreation, and they were constantly measuring themselves by one standard in their common occupations. The curriculum, consisting mainly of the classics, with a little mathematics, philosophy and history, was the same for them all; designed...
...Parlor of Phillips Brooks House. The object of the teas is to provide an opportunity for students to meet one another informally, and to bring them into closer relations with the officers of the University and their families, particularly with those professors whom they do not meet in the classroom. As in former years, the management of the teas is in the hands of a permanent executive committee made up of certain members of the Faculty and their wives, and ten or twelve members of this committee will be present on each Friday afternoon. In addition, a number...
This will rarely come about through classroom associations, because of the size and nature of most Freshman courses. It is only by entering enthusiastically upon one of the many fields of activity which Harvard offers--athletic, literary, philanthropic, etc.,--that a man comes to realize his true position in the University and to come into close touch with his classmates. A few men err in devoting themselves half-heartedly to any interest for which they feel a passing fancy, but they are in the minority. We are confident that a serious application to some interest outside...
Professor Neilson, who spoke next, emphasized the value of whole-hearted work and concentrated effort in doing all work at College both in and out of the classroom. President Eliot illustrated the importance of such work by an incident from the life of Charles Darwin, who said that his education first began when he learned to work with concentrated attention and effort...