Word: write
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...would suggest that, in place of the present Elective Pamphlet, a descriptive book be published, and that, if necessary, a price be charged for it. Every professor could then write a description of his courses. Possibly, it would be a good plan to give "Syllabi" of every course in connection with the descriptive book. The description of Natural History 4, for instance, might be made on the following plan, only as much fuller and better as a professor would make...
...write theses in vacation...
...Examination System, and about its success or failure in fulfilling these purposes, I have heard much argument; but concerning its effects upon instructors and students, I have heard little or nothing. Is it not at least an open question whether the good done the student's style by writing half a dozen themes and a few forensics is not more than out-weighed by the harm done in scribbling twenty blue books a year? For my part, I strongly suspect that to write the blue books of a college course would have ruined the style of Addison and made...
...Vassar Man.THE Vassar Man is a woman. She is a woman who ruins all her prospects of marriage for the sake of a little French, less German, and a minus quantity of Latin. As near as I can make out, the Vassar woman was created chiefly to write little poems on tinted paper; to torture "classical" music out of grand pianos; to furnish paragraphs and jokes to the provincial papers, and to be adored by Yale Freshmen. The old man Vassar made a big mistake when he founded that Poughkeepsie ranch, for the ungrateful young dames who go there persistently...