Word: professors
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...enough to state these "grounds," in print, it has no business to "surmise." For the present, it is sufficient to say, in order to prove the true value of such "surmising," that the course referred to is Latin II., and that the instructor in question is no other than Professor Greenough. We have witnessed many rude, unpardonable assaults of injudicious hotheads upon instructors, but that committed by the Echo, allow me to say, is an outrage on public decency. Just consider a moment: Professor Greenough is one of the most respected citizens of Cambridge, one of the most successful instructors...
...elective system, though far superior to the prescribed, has also its drawbacks. Perhaps the most frequent and greatest difficulty, even to the earnest student, is in deciding what to elect, and in learning who is to conduct the course; whether the professor named in the elective pamphlet, or some unknown alternate. At the end of his Freshman year, especially, is the student placed in a critical and doubtful position. Mistakes in electives are inevitably made, and the Junior regrets that he frittered away his Sophomore year on La Fontaine, when he might have taken a solid course in English, science...
...wise, while the old men are they who seek to gain knowledge. I was much pleased and astonished last week when I attended what they call a recitation. The young men, having investigated some branch of learning, enter the room prepared and eager to impart their knowledge to the professor. They seat themselves upon two chairs apiece, using one for their feet, and when they have become quiet, the professor looks sharply at each youth, for the purpose, I am told, of seeing who are honest. He then checks those who are honest, and the labor of learning begins. Great...
THOSE who have read the last annual report of the President will remember the recommendation contained there of establishing a system of promotion for instructors: a Tutor to be raised, after a certain time, to the rank of Assistant Professor; an Assistant Professor to the rank of Professor. The recommendation met with the approval of all friends of education. Only recently there was a chance of carrying out the President's plan. But carried out it was not. By some good fortune Harvard was enabled to establish a chair in Sanskrit, - a subject for the tuition of which little financial...
...glittering files had flashed away in the distance came a score of young tutors as Spanish cavaliers, proudly escorting members of the Annex, whose horses, as if proud of their freight of female loveliness, arched their necks and pranced in haughty glee. The cavalcade was closed by the Chinese professor on a donkey...