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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...which looked like design and not necessity, and that was the position of History 7. This course is one of the most desirable in college, and for those who are particularly interested in history is an absolute necessity, for no man who wishes to be well informed in that subject can be without a knowledge of European history during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Large numbers of students took the course, not because it was "soft," for there are many easier courses offered us, but with a view to the profit they would get from it. Now what...
...Faculty should hasten to supply the place of Professor Baxter by some one who will keep alive that interest, as the work in this department is too much for any one man to do alone. We would suggest that Sanders Theatre be used for a recitation-room in this subject during the year, as well as for the rehearsals of the competitors for the Boylston prizes. This would necessitate keeping it heated during the winter, but it certainly would be worth while to do so on account of the added interest which would be given by having a fine hall...
...sound of one's own voice is generally so delightful that many persons are unmindful of its effect on the weary listener, who has unfortunately been bound a captive to the prosy tyrant's ambition for a subject...
...them it is most common. But in books, and in our lecture and recitation rooms, it is but too often met with; and the student, bending over a text-book or within the sound of the voice of a teacher, finds his thoughts distracted and wandering away from the subject, which should absorb his whole attention. Instead of brief, simple, terse statements, easily grasped and understood, we have attempts at profound, high-sounding expositions, whose object is to exhibit the learning of the author or utterer, rather than to teach the reader or hearer. Trite sayings, which might be found...
...often that we have something to find fault with that it is a pleasant change when there is anything to praise. A short time since the Professor of Rhetoric announced his intention of lowering the marks given at the anticipatory examination in this subject. At that time we felt obliged to protest against this reduction as unjust, and so now we are happy to say that the professor has reconsidered his intention; and not only this, but has announced that it is in consequence of what was said in the College papers. We are glad to see that...