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...mentioned. But the writer of the faulty expression cannot conceal his embarrassment, when he hears his own blunders publicly laughed at. It is humiliating enough to hear one's own mistakes read before a class, but much more irritating is it to hear an instructor ridicule an unfortunate attempt to tell about the death of a brother. Even if an instructor has no delicacy in mortifying a student in the presence of his classmates, still it would be supposed that the instincts of a gentleman would cause him to hesitate in publicly ridiculing an expression which was intended to narrate...
Still, it must be understood that we do not undertake to keep such a body as the Board of Overseers in the path of consistency, that is altogether too difficult and irksome a task for us to attempt. We point out the true course for them to take, we persuade them to adopt this course,-and here our duty to the University ends. After that, we wash our hands on the whole body, and leave them to their fate. Perhaps, however, our restless contemporary the Advocate, which is so clear in understanding articles of a facetious nature, may be willing...
...easy thing to tutor. Indeed, the most successful tutors must have natural ability in addition to the thorough knowledge of their subjects. Many men who attempt to tutor, while they may have a thorough knowledge of the subject,-perhaps a knowledge more thorough tnan that possessed by certain other brothers in the trade,-nevertheless are unsuccessful in their work, just because they lack the necessary natural qualifications. Men who combine both qualifications, namely, natural ability and thorough knowledge, most perfectly, are the most successful, and get the highest pay. Then there are those who fail, because they undertake...
...thrown open to the young ladies of America. The wish, so long cherished by mothers and fathers, of giving their daughters the same advantages in the way of instruction as were enjoyed by their sons at the foremost institution of learning on the continent, was at last realized. An attempt has been made to induce the Corporation of Harvard University to allow the entrance of young ladies on the same terms with young men; but the conservative body of august men was suffering from an attack of that disease, peculiar to such bodies, known as impecunia. They refused to have...
...been said, and very truly, that no man or institution in this world which attains to greatness escapes from attack. So Harvard has found many times and not always to its liking. The most recent attempt to cast odium on the methods pursued at this university was in the form of a long letter to the Boston Transcript. This letter took the authorities severely to task for the manner in which the Divinity School is run and its professorships filled. Fortunately for our good name the writer of this lengthy diatribe seems to be almost alone in his opinions...