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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Concerning the effect of the system upon the instructor, there can be no question. Dr. A. Potter, in his able book on Reading, says: "It is nearly an axiom that people will not be better than the books they read." Not better than the books they read? Great Heavens! Do you not tremble for our instructors? Are they to descend at last to the level of the blue book? Are they to be no better than that "wretched heap and hotch-potch of words and ideas"? Alas! what a horrible destiny! But ought they not to be rescued? Ought...
...dozen themes and a few forensics is not more than out-weighed by the harm done in scribbling twenty blue books a year? For my part, I strongly suspect that to write the blue books of a college course would have ruined the style of Addison and made Dr. Johnson unreadable...
...Gymnasium was opened to the University last Thursday, and all who have visited it recognize that Mr. Hemenway could not have made a wiser gift. The completeness of the appointments prove the wisdom of selecting Dr. Sargent to superintend their preparation, and those who have been impatient for the opening of the building must feel that they could well afford to wait for the perfecting of such advantages as the Gymnasium now offers. There is nothing more to be desired in the building except a full attendance of students of all departments of the University. No student can afford...
ATTENTION is called to the advertisement of Dr. Tourjees Conservatory of Music on page vii. This establishment is well adapted to meet the musical wants of Harvard...
...members of the University can show their appreciation of Mr. Hemenway's magnificent gift in no better way than by using its advantages daily throughout the winter. The building is perfect for its purpose, and the man at its head is both an accomplished gymnast and an educated physician. Dr. Sargent brings to Harvard the results of a long and successful experience, and feels confident that he can greatly improve the standard of our gymnastic exhibitions...