Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...reading Horace, are you?" said be, "I should like to have you read some to me; I really do not know how they teach it now. Diana, my dear, fetch me the Odes of Horace...
...Oberlin has given up the custom of having a long vacation in the winter so that students could teach...
...complete our training and render us fitted for public life, if called upon, we need such instruction as shall teach us, by examples from present history, to clearly see the relations between cause and effect, between theory and practice, between the fundamental principles we have been learning in history and political economy and the apparently disconnected and eccentric movements of the world to-day. Such instruction would be too wide and comprehensive to be confined within the limits of an elective course. If given this year, it should have enabled us to understand, for instance, the financial crisis through which...
...much, if at all, greater than what the present student reads before entering upon his Sophomore year. Substitutions of the ancient and modern languages for the higher courses in mathematics have been allowed for more than half a century. At the present day, any attempt to teach in a four years' course all the subjects which now could claim a place in a liberal education would result in graduating students well crammed, perhaps, but certainly very poorly educated...
...like to teach the trick...