Word: particular
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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THERE has been a great deal of complaint lately from those who have been prevented from taking some of the more popular elective courses, and, it seems to us, not without good reason. Without dwelling on the hardship of this exclusion in individual instances, or referring to any particular courses, we wish to protest against the principle of preventing anybody from taking a course which is put down in the elective pamphlet as open to him. If the number in some of the electives must be limited, this should at least be announced beforehand. But we cannot see what...
...particular building represents the College. All these buildings are the College...
...customary, we believe, for the Professors in some of the departments to give but one hour to the instruction of the members of two different electives. We do not wish to question the wisdom of this method in the particular cases that we have in mind; there may be reasons strong enough to justify its adoption. On general principles, however, the system is not a good one. In the first place the student gets but half an hour of instruction, instead of the full hour, which, when he took the course, he had every reason to suppose he would receive...
...GREAT many of the woes which form the subject for complaint among undergraduates are imaginary; but there are some grievances which justify grumbling, and among these are the restrictions on our privileges which have been recently voted by the Faculty. We refer, in particular, to the new rule requiring Seniors and Juniors to take twelve hours, and Sophomores ten hours of elective studies throughout the year. We have been allowed, up to this time, to take as many hours each half-year as we wished, provided that the sum-total for the two half-years equalled twenty-four hours...
...take cold." I don't suppose that any instructor is so absurd as to think that a student will be injured by reading in the class what he has just read outside in preparing the lesson. The instructor's motive, then, in being so exceedingly particular is, probably, to avoid all laughter and disorder. To this I can only say, after the manner of a parable: There were two sections, Freshman year, - in the one, passages were constantly omitted; in the other, those only were avoided which were wholly unprofitable; in the first, the order to omit was always...