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Charles Sumner entered the freshman class Sept. 1, 1826. The undergraduates, now numbering nearly a thousand, at that period scarcely reached two hundred. Rev. John T. Kirkland was the president. Sumner occupied during his freshman year the room now numbered 17 Hollis; during his sophomore and junior years 12 Stoughton...
Not often does it fall to the lot of a college professor to be held by his pupils in such universal esteem and affection as was the late Dr. Martin, of the University of the City of New York. During all his career in that institution he probably never had...
He says to commence work in this way: "The first thing you must attend to is your stomach. If you commence violent exercise without taking some kind of an opening medicine, you will most certainly be sick from it. I should advise as a purgative either rhubarb or podophylm, to...
The writer turns his attention to the elective system, of which he apparently entertains an unfavorable opinion. He says: "General education is a question of the subjects to be taught, special education is a question of the person to be taught. The one depends on what is known, the range...
Of Professor Sophocles' power as a teacher it may be said he was not well adapted to the general work of instructing undergraduates; for advanced scholars, however, his influence was very stimulating, and his great knowledge of Greek literature gave him a wealth of ready and familiar illustrations. He was...