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...summer rambles I wandered as far east as Orono, the seat of the Maine State College, and, happening there in the midst of their Class-Day exercises, I took the opportunity of studying the character and customs of that institution. There are probably so few in this University who ever heard of the place that I may be pardoned for mentioning its location on the Penobscot, twenty miles beyond Bangor...
...record of the scenes of hazing his class had been through thrilled the audience with enthusiasm. The prophecy must have been even more uninteresting to a stranger. But the valedictory reached the climax of the absurd. After informing us that this was the last time his class would ever meet together, he thanked the President and Superintendents for their leniency, and expressed his gratitude to the people of Orono for what they had done. He confessed that when he came to college he had no inclination to go into society, he was awkward in entering a room. "But you have...
...most awkward men that Maine, fruitful in this species, ever produced...
...authorities to give him legitimate assistance. But does the present system of examinations give the student a fair chance? I think not, for the following reasons. I defy any man, - always leaving out the exceptional genius who is sui generis and therefore outside of all logical argument, - be he ever so faithful a student, to go into an examination and do himself justice or fairly test his technical knowledge of a subject, without a careful review of the matter he is to be examined on. It is the review of a subject that drives it home, that makes it fast...
...Reaching ever towards...