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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.-Allow me to express a very general opinion of an instructor's action in publicly ridiculing the mistakes in composition which students made in examinations. With the evident intention of exciting ridicule, extracts are read of themes which have been written under great pressure, when revision was impossible. The instructor starts the laugh, and naturally the students are not slow to follow his example...
...attend the lectures which would, in this way, become far more comprehensive than they have been in past years. The study of the authors would not be so limited, nor so cursory, if a more extended plan were pursued, than at present. Any course that attempts to give even general idea of Emerson one week, and Carlyle the next can only fail to accomplish its purpose. No cast iron list of ten writers can give any idea of their literary periods when the study of the list is to be finished in ten weeks. If the list admitted additions...
...meet a demand for individual board, Mrs. Robie will open a room in her house, at 2, Divinity Avenue, for a general table...
...different ages. First, by imparting facts in a vivid and very interesting manner. This method would only apply to children in the primary schools. Second, by paying more attention to the philosophical part of history, showing the relation between different events, and the bearing of particular instances on general laws. This method could be profitably carried on in high schools and colleges. Third, the method of investigation, which should be the work of students at Universities. Investigation, by reference to original sources of all kinds, may be made for the purpose of settling disputed points, or for discovery of unknown...
...meet a demand for individual board, Mrs. Robie will open a room in her house, at 2, Divinity Avenue, for a general table...