Word: instructions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...good school would copy very fully, in at least one respect, its Parisian model; it would instruct its pupils well in the history of the diplomacy and international law, of which subject our leading statesmen are lamentably ignorant...
...interesting courses of lectures in their respective branches, we look in vain to find desirable activity among the members of the Philosophical Club. The excellence of this department in the college curriculum is well known, and the courses fairly popular; so a course of lectures on modern thought would instruct a large number of appreciative and intelligent students. Let us hope that a representative of some school of philosophy, not favored by our professors may be induced to come to Cambridge...
...college that they ought to prepare him, not for the list of facts and rules necessary to get into college. And that is what the German gymnasia do: they encourage independent thought they try to develop the individual minds of their pupils and to instruct them in the methods of thought and research...
...energy on the part of the agitators are grave, and, as Mr. Brooks said in one of his lectures last term, the only way of averting them is by the education of the masses on this question. But how can men be enlightened unless there are those competent to instruct the great body of laborers who are, as a rule, utterly ignorant of the simplest economic principles? The smattering of knowledge which men acquire by studying one or two courses in the theory of political economy will avail nothing. What is needed at this college is a course...
...executive committee are to be congratulated upon the selection of the topic for debate in the Union this evening. Russian Nihilism is one of the most momentous issues of modern times. Its discussion cannot fail to interest and instruct to an unusual degree. The recent lectures upon Socialism have renewed the interest in the question of the communistic spirit of the lower classes of to-day, and the debate to-night promises to be one of the best contested of the year. As this evening offers the last opportunity to those who have not yet spoken from the floor...