Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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Concerning the effect of the system upon the instructor, there can be no question. Dr. A. Potter, in his able book on Reading, says: "It is nearly an axiom that people will not be better than the books they read." Not better than the books they read? Great Heavens! Do you not tremble for our instructors? Are they to descend at last to the level of the blue book? Are they to be no better than that "wretched heap and hotch-potch of words and ideas"? Alas! what a horrible destiny! But ought they not to be rescued? Ought...
...tendency among certain of the professors to weed out a large number of the men who take their elective by giving very low marks and discouraging any who wish to join after the term begins. This usually happens in an elective which, since it meets the wants of a great many students, is naturally popular; but there is no reason why a professor should mark fifteen or twenty per cent below the average for the express purpose of lightening his own work. This course of action seems to suggest - what is elsewhere apparent - that some of the professors forget that...
...composer died at thirty-six years of age, and that this work was only op. 9. It is essentially poetical and even dramatic in the intensity of emotion, keenly imaginative and wrought out in orchestration that is worthy of Wagner or Berlioz. Indeed, its intensity is perhaps too great to express its motto...
...left to impart their usefulness to a few favored souls, the Crimson has decided to give due prominence to this unnoticed branch of instruction and to cull a few gems from this rich treasure-house. Some of the paper's ardent supporters have favored us with some of the great questions of the time, and the gigantic brain of the undergraduate has wrestled with a number of them...
...have long felt to be unsupplied. It has been said that the beams, from which it was supposed the apparatus was to be hung, are too high. The effect of the interior would have been marred by placing the beams any lower, while by the present method a great advantage is gained. An iron framework is fastened to the timbers, on which are running beams and eyes that can be placed at any desired point...