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...reference, however, to "the temper of the age" I shall make, because it may thus be seen that the system of teaching which, in this day, puts Greek authors at a point so distant from us as to be discouraging to all and inaccessible to most is necessarily bad. A striking characteristic of the literature of our age is its sympathy with the Greek in thought and in feeling. There never was a time before when writers of English in almost all departments but the religious drew their inspiration so often and so directly from Greek authors. Proofs of this...
...with a list of the fifty manuscripts of the work in hand, which lie rotting on a dusty shelf of the Bodleian library; teach him the peculiarities of all the editions ever published; let him point out the errors in copying made by the drowsiest monk in the darkest age; let him learn to lay his finger with a feeling of proud superiority upon the four places in all his great author's works where he has clearly gone wrong in grammar; let him show why it is that Herr Klopstock is silly and ignorant for supposing that line...
...been so small, and it is maintained that an injustice, formerly practised by a few, now receives the sanction of the whole class. In regard to a matter of this kind agitation is the one thing necessary to produce good results. We cannot hope to arrive at the golden age by any short cut, and much may be considered as accomplished in turning the attention of students to this glaring abuse...
...have not been properly recognized in his lifetime, it is well to dwell upon them in his obituary; but the talents of Professor Dennett were such that they could not be overlooked, and it is necessary only to point to the positions he held, before reaching the age of thirty-five, to indicate what a loss we have sustained...
This question can hardly admit of a general answer, so wide is the diversity of cases both as regards the student himself and the opportunities of employment opened to him. Age is to be taken into the account. If one graduates at twenty-four or later, and is free from debt, it is better for him to enter at once on his professional studies, especially at the present time, when the freshness and vigor of youth are at a premium in some of the professions, and at a discount in none. But if one is in debt, he should keep...