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Professor E. H. James, of the U. of P., has declined President Harper's offer of $7,000 to teach political economy at Chicago University...
...first of a series of lectures by Prof. Goodale on "How to Teach Botany" was given yesterday afternoon in the Botany Lecture Room before an audience composed largely of ladies. The lecture was very instructive and interesting and should have been attended by more of the students whether they intended to teach Botany or not. Before he began his lecture proper Prof. Goodale spoke with a great deal of feeling of the life and work of his friend Dr. Watson who died recently. The lecture dealt with the teaching of elementary Botany and was based mainly on the following ideas...
...Europe would lead in thoroughness of education. The principles which Comenius represented are embodied in his various writings, the most important of which are the "Great Didactic," the "Gate of Languages" and the "World Illustrated." The object of the first of these was, as expressed in the subtitle, "to teach everybody everything" and "to search out a rule in accordance with which the teachers teach less and the learners learn more." Knowledge, virtue and religious conviction, the three things to be sought after in life, are to be obtained through study. To educate humanity so as to give...
...more purely social organizations. Their work to a great extent supplements the work of the college, giving a certain interest to study not always to be found in ordinary college routine, and encouraging a desire for special research. In a sociable way the members of these organizations meet and teach each other much that they would not learn from long study under one professor. The different interests which each of the members feels in the subject under consideration bring out different points of view, many of them very valuable. The work of these college clubs is little recognized outside...
...managing any one of the college organizations, be it the Botanical Club or the 'varsity eleven, does a great deal to destroy the illusion that things run of their own accord. The duties of an officer of one of these clubs may not be very heavy, but they teach him the important principle of responsibility which is all important in after life. This training in management and responsibility which the clubs give, is not, we believe, offered by any other branch of the University...