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...earnestly hope that this plan will be successful, and that our college exquisites may thereby be induced to pass their vacations in some more manly way than in dangling about the billiard-rooms and ball-rooms of summer caravansaries. It is only to be regretted that the element of actual danger will be wanting, and therewith half the charm of surmounting hitherto untrodden summits. The London Alpine Club imposes as a condition on all candidates that they shall have ascended to the height of twelve thousand feet above the sea; but it would seem difficult for the Boston club...
...excess, regardless of "the hopes of future years." Many absences that would be excused readily are left to swell the total of cuts, and the percentage of attendance is lowered; and when the system is carefully reviewed, as it is bound to be, will give an actual success the appearance of failure...
...detail to the criticisms which Mr. D. T. Reilley, said to be of Rutgers College, made on a little book of Mr. Allen's called the "Latin Primer," and designed to "teach little children the elements of Latin as a living and flexible tongue, by familiar use in actual narrative and dialogue." Our readers may remember that we have already published an article which showed the unfairness of Mr. Reilley's insinuations against Harvard, and also that, so eager had this gentleman been to detect a mote in Mr. Allen's eye, he had not discovered the beam...
...fine conception the detractors of the institution admit; so was that, originally, of the gladiatorial games at Rome, they say, and point with derision to the actual exhibition at the tree. So much the worse for the facts, we repeat...
...this a contradiction? Truly, so far as our present indifference involves laziness, or represses independent thought, it is reprehensible. But these faults conquered, - and experience shows that, as soon as our students go into actual special study, this is the case, - our methods of thought and study are precisely right for an academic course. Superficiality in one study becomes general culture when extended to all, general culture gives the only sound data for induction, generalization, abstraction, - the highest processes of thought. The object of a college is not that of a machine-shop; it does not fit a man directly...