Word: instructor
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...various sorts, and the rest of their time in feeling each other's muscles, and reading the "Spirit of the Times"; a studious crowd, to which no man is admitted whose average is n't over 85 per cent, and whose members think they know more than any instructor in college, and spend their spare hours in reading the classics or philosophy for amusement; and an infinite number of sets which have no distinguishing characteristics at all, composed of men whom fellowship at school or mere chance has thrown together, and who are not qualified for any of the three...
...would not increase this inconvenience. The disadvantages of the present room, such as the cost of heating, presence of examinations, and proximity to a recitation-room would be avoided, and the Library would have taken one more step towards making itself "the nearest friend of every student and every instructor...
...INSTRUCTOR (savagely). How do you make landea out of terrebant...
...title. The trouble is, we are apt to be gulled by these impostors, and never think of putting them to a test. They are caught, however, in their own nets sometimes. The story is an old one, but nevertheless true, that in a certain Greek elective the instructor asked his pupils the color of the lions in Greece. One well-informed man said they were tawny, another maintained that they were black, and a third asserted with confidence that they were brown. "None of you are right," said the instructor. "There are no lions in Greece...
...conclusion, allow me to say one word about the instructor in this subject; namely, that he does not seem to have found out yet that there is any distinction between a college and a primary school...