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...severe and inflexible discipline, too numerous to be governed by the methods of kindness and persuasion. There thus springs up between master and scholars a state of war and mutual hostility. The character of the children is deformed, their nature imbittered. Then, since the moral influences of home are absent, and that tenderness is lacking which, enveloping us in an atmosphere of affection and purity, puts us out of the power of all evil, and preserves from all impure contact, - in the absence of this jealous and anxious solicitude of a mother for what she holds dearest upon earth, evil...
...President of Harvard, though absent in Europe, was immediately recalled by vote of the Faculty, and, arriving at Cambridge in an incredibly short time, ordered out the Freshmen to contend with the diabolical Sophomores...
...since the introduction of the elective system, the idea of exchanging a year in College for one in Europe has occurred to some, and in some instances been acted upon. At present there are some absent abroad who purpose returning next year; and the writer, among others, adopted the same plan last year. The result was perfectly satisfactory to him. For those who have no previously fixed choice of studies or those who elect a greater or less number of modern languages the scheme is easily feasible...
...must be remembered, too, that though a student in College may elect several courses in Greek and Latin, he is limited to but one in French and German each. An exception, however, was made in favor of those absent last year by allowing them to substitute a modern language for anticipated Philosophy...
...deduction of eight is made for being absent or tardy at a recitation. It certainly seems that this rule will decrease the number of those who are tardy, but increase those who are absent; for if a person who has perhaps not prepared his lesson finds himself late, he does not at all relish the idea of going in and running the risk of receiving thirty-two additional deductions which the instructor can impose upon him, and so naturally cuts the recitation entirely, - a result most probably different from the one intended...