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...better done here, yet the chances are that it would not be, and that the repetition would bring out but little of advantage to faithful students while it would work great harm to ordinary ones, by cultivating and fostering neglectful habits of work. To be sure there are certain advanced courses which a man can take if he pass off his freshman work in them, but these are not always taken. Bad habits of study formed in freshman year are very apt to extend all through the college, and anything which cultivates this tendency is not in any sense...
...gentleman who wishes to represent a certain district in parliament, about a month before the election is to take place goes there, and immediately begins electioneering. He strives to become acquainted with the principal men, and win their sympathy. By means of dinner parties given by his friends, lectures, speeches, personal visits, etc., he endeavors to place himself prominently before the public. No opportunity for presiding at meetings of the Young Men's Christian Association," for opening fairs, and in short of impressing the public with a sense of his philantrophy and worth is neglected. The regular campaign consists...
...Commons as composed of the quintessence of the statesmanship and brains of the nation, and in this way better able to judge of what is best for the people than the people themselves, is one which has never been satisfactorily decided in all its bearings. One thing is certain, that by the adoption of the latter view of the question, the nation is able to procure wiser and more sagacious men, and the House of Commons does not stand in danger of losing its dignity and prestige as a deliberative body. Questions of this nature must be solved by each...
...governing students; considering a student a man and not a child. Even as late as 1699 the college records at Cambridge, England, show that offenders were "wipt in the buttry" with a lash, though even here was a great advance, for about a century previous we read that a certain mother gave instructions to her son's tutor to "trewly belassch him," adding, "so did the last maystr and the best that he ever had." Another peculiarity, at least to Americans, is the supreme control a man's tutor had over him. He bought his clothes, gave him his very...
Tonight and Tuesday evening there will be a lecture given in Sanders Theatre by Hon. James Bryce, M. P. The close relations existing between English and our own country at the present day render a certain amount of knowledge of English politics almost imperative to every educated man. The subjects the lecturer has chosen must then be of leculiar interest to every student, and it is to be hoped for our own sakes that a large audience will be present to listen...