Word: markedly
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...Mark's at Southboro...
...should be laid more largely than it is today on ability to deal with facts and principles, as compared with information acquired and memory." This is very welcome announcement, for the useless and irksome task of temporarily assimilating a quantity of trivial details in order to obtain a high mark, has proved a most effectual deterrent to students who otherwise would have aspired to honors. An A obtained by such work is considered of little value by the majority of students, for, as President Lowell has put it, "the object of a liberal education is not so much knowledge...
...investigator. His work immediately vindicated the choice; and he was promoted, in 1905, to an assistant professorship. He succeeded in so illuminating an involved and technical subject as to show clearly the vivid interest of its underlying facts and the ories; moreover, he had already begun to make his mark among the forward looking band, who seek to discover not merely the products, but also the mechanism, of organic changes. His academic advancement was assured; he loved the University, he rejoiced in his opportunity to serve her, and in return his students gave him unusual affection...
...personal conferences and "small meetings." They may, even more than lectures, explain what the student should discover for himself; and they may require of the professor more hours a day than the day contains. President Eliot is said to have observed that the trouble with the Garfield theory of Mark Hopkins and the log is "in finding enough Mark Hopkinses to go round...
Professor Morgan was a member of the American Philological Association, the New Palaeographical Society, and the Hellenic Traveler's Club of London. He was a trustee of St. Mark's School, and since 1902 was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...