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...Virginia University Magazine contains much matter, but very little mind. The Denison Collegian is chiefly remarkable for bad spelling. The Dartmouth has begun to copy its puffs. The Yale Lit. is intensely literary, filling its columns with notices of various books written by Swinburne, Whitman, and a certain Mr. Thackeray...
...they think, as all who have examined into the matter will agree, that they have struck a rich vein which it will pay to work. The key-note to the new system seems to be, that law is a science; that, considered as a science, it consists of certain principles or doctrines; that by mastering these doctrines and the application, we shall know what the law should be to be logical, where it is illogical, and how it is illogical. It conceives that these doctrines can be most advantageously studied by taking a series of cases carefully selected from...
...they differ widely in the method by which they would produce this same result. The old system taught by deduction, giving principles and then substantiating them by cases and reasoning. The new system teaches by induction, giving cases and from these extracting principles. The inductive method has a certain scholarly, vigorous charm about it, and requires a mental application and habit which is the very best to discipline and strengthen the mind. It has aptly been termed the Socratic system; each student does his own thinking, analysis, and synthesis, - analysis, in reducing each case to its fundamental principles; synthesis...
...class because they have entered College together, pursued their studies side by side, and are to close their connection with the College on the same day. Now, this bond did exist once, was even very powerful; of that there is no doubt. Does it exist now? Seniors are certainly sorry to leave the friends they have known for four years, but is it because their friends are members of the same class? Have they not often even stronger friendships with men of other classes? Does a Senior have a common feeling of attachment for any one of two hundred...
...contain, it seems, less than this number. In speaking of this abundance of small fry, the editor of the magazine says: "It is true that we are probably wasting force by multiplying the number of such institutions. One good one is better than five poor ones. It is not certain, however, that it is true that one large one is better than five small ones." He thinks, too, that "the bottom of all difficulties in the higher education here . . . . is the difficulty of obtaining first-rate teachers in large enough numbers." This difficulty seems to have been overcome at Harvard...