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...father is a lawyer. When I left home last fall for college, he said: "My dear boy some time you may be in want of advice such as I cannot give you. If that is the case, go to the best lawyer in Boston and state your trouble to him. Some men, and many women, like to send their sons to parsons. But I tell you, a lawyer knows forty times as much about the world as a parson does...
...writer merely states his case, but we suppose that he will offer some (he cannot offer sufficient) proof for his statements in the subsequent letters he has promised to write...
...Dartmouth's lines read thus, with the correction of an obvious misprint at the end of line sixth, whether due to the Advocate or the original we cannot say. They are taken from the "Faerie Queene...
...Ovid, Met. II. 29, and X. 1. This patching is quite legitimate, and we wish all the rest were similarly constructed. The fourth and fifth lines also are correct, metrically; but esuries is a terribly rare and unpoetical word. In line second, opibus has the o short, so it cannot begin a hexameter. In line third, the perfect of fundo is not fusi, and the line is very jerky. Risit would have scanned as well, and suited the other tenses better. In line sixth, coronae cannot begin a hexameter, nor comam end one; moreover, cutting off a diphthong between...
...without involving cramming; but why examinations of the partial character announced should be made the object of intercollegiate contest it is hard to see. They call forth work, but not of the right kind. To examine a man on a play of AEschylus and orations of Demosthenes and AEschines cannot make him a broad Greek scholar, but will only force him to cram these subjects till he knows them by heart. Such an examination is no test of his ability to read the language. Again, it is necessary for a well-educated man to be familiar with Herbert Spencer...