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During the latter half of the Sophomore year two hours a week are devoted to the study of the Constitution of the United States and of the Elements of Political Economy. These subjects are kept entirely distinct. The Constitution is first studied, and the recitations are practically lectures by the instructor upon the application and history of the various sections which come before the division. After the Constitution, or at least the text of it, has been mastered, it is laid aside; and the remainder of the year is devoted to the study of Political Economy...
...studied Divinity at Cambridge after graduation with the professors of theology, who did not then constitute a faculty distinct from that of the College, and in 1818 he was called to the pulpit of the Harvard Church at Charlestown, Mass. He occupied this for twenty-one years, and under his care it became one of the most flourishing and intelligent in the State, and its pastor was recognized as without a peer, with the possible exception of Channing, among Unitarian preachers...
There is so much to be said on the educational principles involved, that it devolves on us with double force to keep widely distinct the best purpose they may serve and the unimportant use they may have first been put to. Yet, even in this spirit there seems less of promise in these contests than their most ardent friends among us, if there be any such, could reasonably expect. A singular apathy in regard to the whole contest is as apparent as it is wide-spread. Whether or not this apathy is without good foundation will be somewhat tested...
...history then divides into three distinct periods. During the first period, that is, before the sixth century, the Hindu game was played. The board was divided into sixty-four squares, all of the same color, and there were four players instead of two. Each player had eight pieces, - a king, elephant, knight, ship, and four pawns. These men were drawn up in the left-hand corners; the allied forces being diagonally opposite one another. The king was four squares from the end, the elephant next, while the knight and ship occupied the two remaining squares, and a pawn stood...
...your endeavors towards some goal not so far off but that it may be reached in an ordinary lifetime, and, reaching it, be satisfied. One word, in the preceding, is ambiguous, "happiness"; but it is not necessary to enter into the discussion whether duty is a motive as distinct from the desire for pleasure, for it is easy to see from his article that the author makes a wide distinction between duty and pleasure, and considers happiness the result of the latter alone, which is very wise, if we recognize something higher and more to be desired than happiness...