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...college has always been greatly favored in being granted opportunities to listen to addresses from visitors of note. Men like Canon Farrar always possess great influence on undergraduate thought and deed, - an influence that goes far to direct aright a student's after life. As we feel so strongly that the benefit received from hearing words full of weight and inspiration from men of ability is great, we can but imitate little Oliver, and cry for "More." Will it not be possible for the authorities to arrange an opportunity for us to listen to Mr. Haweis before his departure from...
Lost, a Philosophy 4 Note Book. Please return to 9 Holyoke House...
...Presidents Porter and Eliot before the "Massachusetts Classical and High School Teachers Association." The reports are worth reading, for they give evidence of how alive American educators are becoming to the necessity of greater co-operation. In education, as in everything else, co-operation seems to be the key-note of success. The plan which President Eliot proposes of having a general board, representing all the colleges interested, to have charge of the preparation and marking of examination papers in all cases when subjects and limits can be agreed upon, is not without weight, and, if carried out, would...
...certainly very interesting to note the positions taken by many of the other colleges on the elective system. What we publish today from Brown is illustration of the reserve with which the system is regarded away from Cambridge. Harvard has led the way. Very slowly Harvard's sister colleges are falling into line. With one eye upon the old system, with another upon the new, they are trying to lose sight of neither. If the new succeeds, then very good; if it fails, the old is still near enough to be called back and taken up again...
...seems plausible that for three hours each week he can give more information to the men in any course than they can ever obtain by hearing some of their own number repeat in a more crude way the things which they either know already or have written in their note books. Much valuable time seems to be unnecessarily lost, especially in the larger courses. There, each individual person ought to have a correspondingly shorter time, but that is a thing that but few instructors can guage. The object of the instructors is to tell men what they cannot find...