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...Muses are too bold...
...agree with you. But is this separation which you have mentioned altogether absent from us? It was a bold step, this elective system; and bolder, voluntary recitations. It means that, in power of judgment, men of twenty stand on a level with their instructors. Parental authority is relinquished, and in place of the imposed self-discipline which the rigor of Puritan teachers imposed on the taught, what have we? There is only one substitute possible, - the personal influence of individual character, - and this is wanting. Do not answer by citing this instructor or that, - I rejoice equally with...
...success attending a few days' and nights' steady application for anticipation of a study or for an annual warrants the presumption that considerable proficiency would result from six weeks' steady study of some branch of natural history. We are not too bold, perhaps, in saying that some knowledge of botany and chemistry rarely or never comes amiss...
Well said, thou thinker bold and free...
...West would tend to change "sober, intelligent, earnest, religious young men" into "fast, wild, and irreligious" characters; and to make of "virtuous, modest, Christian young women," "young women either insipid and fond of frittering away their time reading love-stories and dreaming about young men, or else bold, unchaste, and immodest." The terpsichorean efforts of this author have probably not been attended with success...