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...much for the English system, which has been held by President Porter to be better than our own in several respects. As to the result of the system Canon Farrar goes on to say : "This is the sort of 'kelp and brick dust' used to polish the cogs of their mental machinery ! And when, for a good decade of human life, and those its most invaluable years, a boy has stumbled on this dreadful mill-round, without progressing a single step, and is plucked at his matriculation for Latin prose, we flatter ourselves, forsooth, that we have been giving...
...order to combine with the foregoing lesson in natural history a harmless drill in mathematics, and so give the book value as a compendium of musical forms, a chant is inserted, having for its words the pathetic trilogy of the 'three little kittens in a basket of saw-aw-dust.' This number doubtless suggested serious thoughts to the compiler, for he accompanies it with the touching refrain, 'I've lost my doggy,' and the more pretensions, 'A horrible tale,' in eight-line stanzas with a moral beginning con dolore and increasing in pathos till it becomes as much more doloroso...
...order to combine with the foregoing lesson in natural history a harmless drill in mathematics, and so give the book value as a compendium of musical forms, a chant is inserted, having for its words the pathetic trilogy of the 'three little kittens in a basket of saw-aw-dust.' This number doubtless suggested serious thoughts to the compiler, for he accompanies it with the touching refrain, 'I've lost my doggy,' and the more pretensions, 'A horrible tale,' in eight-line stanzas with a moral beginning con dolore and increasing in pathos till it becomes as much more doloroso...
...fond mother on visiting her son at the University and looking around his room with an anxiouseye, asked: "My son, do you ever sweep under the deed?" "Oh, yes, mother," was the earnest reply, "it is so much easier than to use a dust-pan."-[Spectator...
...used when crossing the field to go on the boards which will be laid, and not on the newly leveled ground, for several hundreds of dollars have been expended on it, and unless a sod is formed before next spring the place will become hardened and a mere dust pan. When it is finally completed we do not think we overstate in saying that Harvard will have the finest track in the country...