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When you have got it cold, and think'st to make a rush...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON BREAKFAST. | 2/6/1880 | See Source »

...think them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON BREAKFAST. | 2/6/1880 | See Source »

...because classes are now so large that a professor sees it would be impossible to know even a majority of the students, and so prefers to know none at all ? Is it because there is no Socrates amongst us? Or because the professors, especially the younger ones, think it below their dignity to become familiar with their pupils? Or, finally, because even with professors, in this money-seeking age, there is a tendency to impart no more of their knowledge than is precisely stipulated in the terms of their engagement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE INFLUENCE OF INSTRUCTORS ON STUDENTS AT HARVARD. | 2/6/1880 | See Source »

...think that all of these causes may have some share in determining the present state of things; but it seems to me that much mutual good might be accomplished if there were a change in this matter. A student who sees that a professor takes no interest in him naturally comes to regard the professor as an evil that must be endured at recitations, and may then be shunned. It is not for him to take the initiative, and he makes no advances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE INFLUENCE OF INSTRUCTORS ON STUDENTS AT HARVARD. | 2/6/1880 | See Source »

...most think that Bayard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHICH SHALL IT BE? | 2/6/1880 | See Source »