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There are few of the men in college that were in Cambridge at this time last year who have forgotten the sad news that met them on their return to work, - the announcement of the death of Adelbert Shaw '94. Those who knew him will always remember that earnest, straightforward character which made him so much esteemed by all the college in the few months he was with us. To the younger classes who come here too late to know him, his name will be handed down as that of a man who, though difficulties stood in his path, fought...
...teach without thoroughly knowing one's subject, and that teaching is a science apart from the subject one would teach. Lay out limitations to your subject, and remember the value of detailed work depends on knowledge that sinks in and stays, not what may be easily learned and forgotten...
...question of the substitution of the Hudson River for the Thames as the course of the three cornered race of Columbia, Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania has been almost forgotten. Though the directors of the Columbia Athletic Union have decided to put an "eight" on the water this year if favorable arrangements can be made in the case of those men in the School of Mines who are required by the college to do summer work this year, it is not probable that such arrangements can be made...
...life was given to the intellectual world and Comenius was among the first to be influenced by it. He determined to devote his life to educating the people and we are still working with the ideas and objects which he evolved three hundred years ago. That he is not forgotten is evident from the extensive preparations which have been made throughout Europe and America to celebrate his birthday. He has won a universal significance and his influence has been world-wide...
...successful teaching. Excess of logic is out of place. Children do not care for argument, but for the facts interestingly stated. Hard work in memorizing is necessary for success in geographical research. The difficulty is in the selection of the facts to be remembered. Half the things one has forgotten are unimportant facts. These should not be learned in the first place...