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...improvements in the University over last year. The increase of students is of course notably large, the list of instructors has been enlarged, a greater number of courses have been offered and there are many other indications of the growth of the University. We shall refer later to certain special important changes in the catalogue; at present we can give only a general account...
...than the little value students generally attribute to it. Few undergraduates can successfully prepare a brief, arrange its parts systematically and forcibly, and write an argument and refutation on that basis. To those students who do the work carefully and conscientiously the course is beneficial; it calls for a certain amount of research, of careful and systematic thought, and of effective presentation of arguments. It trains the mind, even if it be but a little, in logical reasoning...
...practical side of this is that every man is related in certain ways to nature and his fellow-men. Most of them have to put to use the great forces of nature in order that they may earn their bread; but the world today does not want great capitalists, great scientists, great specialits, great professors, or even great theologians, but what it does want is great men who have their own spiritual sensibilities developed and who come into contact with their fellow-men is spiritual beings leading a spiritual life...
Another device was the tryad, or a composition of three facts, fancies or maxims with a certain underlying resemblance. The device enabled the Druids to put things in compact and striking form...
...much, to have a hand in that thing or this thing and in consequence to do many things indifferently instead of a few things successfully. We plead no time to stop to take the voluntary advantages offered us by the University; and yet it is certain that at no time after college life do we find these advantages under as good circumstances. These varied lectures and conferences offered us now will never be offered so conveniently when we have left college and entered upon professional life. Now, therefore, while we have the time, we should avail ourselves of them...