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...many an abode of study. Perhaps we ought to rest content with the state of excellence which the cards have now reached, yet we cannot refrain from the hope that eighty-nine may some day be summoned by a billet blazing in crimson and gold, and borne by a boy in buttons...
...bring with them the college methods. The speaker believed that there ought to be a difference between the quality and quantity of studies for those high school pupils whose education is to end in these institutions and those who are to enter the preparatory schools and colleges. A boy who could go no further than the high school ought in the higher classes of that school to be taught classical and modern languages, for instance, in a somewhat different way from one who was to enter the preparatory schools and colleges. It is a prime necessity that the professors...
...energy. Everyone who has taken careful and full notes of the lectures in any course knows how valuable they are to him at examination time; how many useful and terse things he has found in them that no number of text or reference books ever gave him! When boys are at school they prepare their lessons and go to the recitations and recite what they have learned. When a mind is very young, that system is necessary to increase the organ of memory and give the boy confidence; but when that mind is nearing the close of its scholastic cultivation...
Wanted.- A gentleman accustomed to shooting and fishing, to take entire charge of a boy of fourteen during the months of July and August, taking him to the Maine woods or to Canada. Address immediately, Rev. Leighton Parks, 100 Mt. Vernon street, Boston...
Wanted.- A gentleman accustomed to shooting and fishing, to take entire charge of a boy of fourteen during the months of July and August, taking him to the Maine woods or to Canada. Address immediately, Rev. Leighton Parks, 100 Mt. Vernon street, Boston...