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...deficiencies, will be found to admit that their knowledge of geography is in a woeful plight. In this point as in all other matters, we have a great deal to learn from the Germans. There this study is taught right through the school course for two hours a week, excepting in some gymnasia, where the last two years are devoted to other subjects. In the preliminary stage of instruction, no text book is used except by the teacher; the pupils are encouraged to obtain their ideas from actual observation and practice. They are told in a more or less general...
...fever in our American colleges for starting congresses, houses of commons, and the like. The formation of such debating societies, which shall keep the students directly informed about the public business of the nation, is a very hopeful sign. The old societies used to discuss everything under the sun, except politics and religion, which were tabooed subjects. But now we have come over to the more sane idea that if we are ever to influence politics, we must learn as soon as possible to study political questions. There is no better way to make our politicians scholars, than to make...
...where I saw the old Harvard College on fire, and it was with the utmost difficulty they savd the other Buildings. Stoughton was on fire an Hour, Massachusetts catched in three places, and Hollis Hall is burnt much at the Southwest corner, there was nothing saved in old College except a bed or two, the whole Library, except some books lent out and Mr. Hollis's last donation, were demolished, the whole apparatus. Mrs. Hancock who lodgd out on account of the storm lost everything except the cloths she had on, this is a most terrible accident, this Library...
Lowest on the scale are books full of copied notes, written up hurriedly from the books of a large circle of friends. They are insignificant, and uncharacteristic except in so far as they show the slinking habits of the owner. Next comes the note-book in flexible covers, bearing generally some such printed legend as the "Students Own Blank Book." These are used by men who take few and careless notes, and after a few days they get the air of a grocery order book. Above these rank the larger stiff covered note-books of all shapes and sizes...
...officers of this meeting were the same as at the first, except that Mr. Joseph Lee took the place of Mr. Robert Bacon as one of the judges of sparring...