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...will perhaps be interesting to compare with these American schools the instruction offered at the Free School of Political Science in Paris. The course is for two years, extending from November to June. Instruction is divided into four sections, Administrative, Diplomatic, Economic and Financial, and the General Section. The latter department would doubtless be of most value to the American student, as the aim of the others is more confined, being chiefly directed to fit for the civic and diplomatic service of France. In this section, devoted to Public Law and History, the instruction includes: Comparative Civil Legislation, (by Prof...
...reading aloud of our mother tongue, an art in which many otherwise well educated men are sadly deficient. The instruction will be given by Mr. Edward Cummings, A. B, a member of the Divinity School. The prospectus of the course in detail is as follows. There will be three sections, each of which will meet twice a week at the following hours: Section A, Mondays and Wednesdays, from 12 to 1; section B, Mondays and Wednesdays from 3 to 4. The aim as stated above is to give instruction in the reading aloud of English prose. The sections are made...
...excursion in N. H. 8 to day, will leave Harvard square, corner of Brighton street, at 1.15 P. M. The section will walk to the Allston station and take the train for Auburndale...
...they learned absolutely nothing in it, and that it was time thrown away to attend the recitations. While there is much exaggeration in their statement, there is nevertheless much truth as well. Perhaps nothing is so tedious to a young mind as to sit hour after hour in a section there the method of teaching is wearisome and false, not to mention the (often unjust) dislike to the voice and presence of the instructor. No matter how interesting the subject, no matter how much the student may think it will benefit him, unless the head of the department posesses...
...plan pursued by Prof. Palmer in making up the list of absent in English 7 is an excellent one and should be adopted by all the instructors whose courses are numerously attended. In sections like Sophomore Rhetoric, Natural History 4, French 1, and many others of a similiar size, much valuable time is lost in the useless occupation of calling the roll, In many of these courses fully ten minutes is wasted by the instructors in this wearisome work.The plan adopted by Prof. Palmer is to allow each member of the section to hand in a piece of paper...