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...Greek read in 1850 was not much, if at all, greater than what the present student reads before entering upon his Sophomore year. Substitutions of the ancient and modern languages for the higher courses in mathematics have been allowed for more than half a century. At the present day, any attempt to teach in a four years' course all the subjects which now could claim a place in a liberal education would result in graduating students well crammed, perhaps, but certainly very poorly educated...
...first day of April being past and no change having been made in the hour of commencing recitations, we have entered upon a trial of a system which we think the majority of the students wished to have put in practice. The boating and ball men would like, doubtless, the extra hour in the afternoon, but by far the greater number of students prefer not to gain an hour in the morning, if at the same time an hour in the evening has to be sacrificed...
...Women are now admitted to all the privileges of Harvard College. Eastward the star of education takes its way. Kansas, from the first, founded her university on the better-half theory. . . . . We are almost at a loss to understand why it is that in these latter days Harvard College has fallen heir to so many adverse criticisms, not from its enemies alone, but from its friends. Either its recent history has been one of rapid retrograde, or else the scholarship of New England has gone suddenly ahead of the standard of its most venerable seat of learning. It has been...
...care in life, as far as it appears, is the burden of lighting sundry fires and cleaning various boots. It would seem as if this responsibility was not enough to make him absent-minded, yet one would suppose that a tolerably well-brought-up mule would know that a day in January with the wind blowing at the rate of fifty miles an hour, and the thermometer feeling after the floor, was colder than the spring days of April; but not so my scout. All through the winter he used to put barely coal enough on the fire to keep...
...anything, he takes great pains to do exactly the opposite of what I have told him. If I say that I am going away to pass Sunday, and do not want a fire lighted, he puts himself to a great deal of pains to keep the fire blazing all day. And if I tell him I shall be back at a certain time, I am sure, upon my arrival, to find a desolate hearth...