Word: offing
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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At the east end of the Rotch building on Holmes Field a one-story brick addition is being built, which will be used as a laboratory for the Mining and Metallurgy Department. The building will be a brick shell with a flat roof and will have a smoke-stack 50...
The new education especially emphasizes three principles: that education should always recognize the fitness of different minds for different work; that the process of education need not be and should not be, forbidding; that in earlier systems of education, natural science had not a fair place. These three principles are...
Again by the adoption of attractive and easy methods of work, with a careful regard to individual trails, the attempt to make education less forbidding, carried too far has resulted in robbing education of much of its mental discipline. The children brought up "along the lines of least resistance" are...
Dean Briggs asks if the enjoyment we wish to put into education as sufficiently robust, and also, granting we approve of an elective system in College, whether the secondary and grammer schools should follow in the same path.
Another comment on the "new fashioned education" concerns what is expected of teachers. The value that is set on text-books induce teacher to give up a great part of their time to writing. Dean Briggs regards this value as overrated. The first duty of the teacher is to teach...