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that it is a gift like any other, and cannot be expected in the mass of people. This objection, however, applies only to dramatic reading, or, at best, to what is known as "fine reading." Good reading, in the sense in which it is here used, means simply intelligent reading; and anybody who can understand a book can of course read it intelligently...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTELLIGENT READING. | 5/17/1878 | See Source »

...before the Annuals begin. The generous regard for our comfort and convenience, which has thus been shown by the members of the Faculty in giving us early notice of these crucial tests, deserves our hearty thanks. Whether a man is a hard-working student or an indefatigable idler, he cannot fail to acknowledge his indebtedness to those gentlemen who have made this early publication of the schedule...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/3/1878 | See Source »

...competent and faithful, and his duties are performed in the most conscientious manner. But this does not prevent our condemnation of his system of marking, which we regard as absolutely wrong. Solid substantial instruction is the main object in taking any elective, and marks, whether high or low, cannot affect the student's real acquirements; but so long as he is required, in order to test the faithful performance of duty, to submit to examinations, upon the result of which college rank is made to depend, such examinations should be fair and impartial, and they should be based upon sound...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/3/1878 | See Source »

...folly and evils of reckless overwork have within the past few weeks been brought forcibly to the notice of every student. We need not comment upon the sadness of the cases in question, but the lesson they contain cannot be too strongly emphasized. This is the season when hard work is most fatiguing, and yet most necessary. An ambitious student, trusting to the approaching vacation for rest and recovery, is tempted to strain every nerve, and, before he is hardly conscious of his danger, he may do himself irreparable injury. Even the strongest constitution and the most faithful exercise will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/3/1878 | See Source »

...cannot refrain from commenting on the conduct of an Examiner, who was present at a recitation in English 2 one morning this week. At the close of the recitation this gentleman expressed to the class his dissatisfaction with the way the elective was conducted, advocating reading with expression, and going over less work in the course of the year. The instructor, in defending himself, said that his idea was to go over as much ground in the course as possible, and not to attempt fine elocution and expression in reading. A discussion followed before the division, in which the Examiner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/3/1878 | See Source »