Word: questions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...POLITICAL canvass of the Law School gives the following result: Proportion of Republican votes, 58 per centum; of Democratic votes, 42 per centum. On the presidential question: for Bayard, 38 per centum; Sherman, 14 per centum; Grant, 10 per centum; Edmunds, 7 per centum; Blaine, 7 per centum; Hayes, 6 per centum; Evarts, 6 per centum; "anti-Grant," 6 per centum; scattering, 6 per centum. The polls were open for a week, and hard work was done for Grant...
Concerning the effect of the system upon the instructor, there can be no question. Dr. A. Potter, in his able book on Reading, says: "It is nearly an axiom that people will not be better than the books they read." Not better than the books they read? Great Heavens! Do you not tremble for our instructors? Are they to descend at last to the level of the blue book? Are they to be no better than that "wretched heap and hotch-potch of words and ideas"? Alas! what a horrible destiny! But ought they not to be rescued? Ought...
About the purposes of the Examination System, and about its success or failure in fulfilling these purposes, I have heard much argument; but concerning its effects upon instructors and students, I have heard little or nothing. Is it not at least an open question whether the good done the student's style by writing half a dozen themes and a few forensics is not more than out-weighed by the harm done in scribbling twenty blue books a year? For my part, I strongly suspect that to write the blue books of a college course would have ruined the style...
...from the question-man of '83). In the Rig Veda. At least, I don't see why it shouldn't be there. I'll question Professor X. on the subject in the next recitation in chemistry...