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...farce of "Taming a Tiger." The performance of the "Babes in the Woods" showed care and attention on the part of the actors, but seemed unable to excite as much interest in the audience as could have been desired by those who wished well of the undertaking. The fault was decidedly more in the play than in the acting. The plot is extremely uninteresting, and with a few exceptions devoid of either diverting incident or lively dialogue. The long measured speeches which we were compelled to listen to produced a soporific effect hardly anticipated by any one accustomed to witness...
...first fault to be found with our system of instruction is that we apply it indiscriminately to all students. Now, one has a faculty for philosophy, another for languages; one has a synthetic, another an analytic mind; some, born under the ardent rays of the southern sun, have more imagination than judgment; while others, living in the colder regions of the north, have a more severe character, - with such the reasoning is superior to the other faculties; no matter, the course of study is the same for all. All minds are run into the same mould. The germs...
...would that the course of study had only the defect of uniformity! But it has another still greater, and of a more radical nature. It has also the fault of being never, or but rarely, entirely carried out. Do our Bachelors know all that is professedly required of them? Can they read Homer or Virgil with ease? Are they really acquainted with French, Greek, and Roman literature? Have they ideas at all accurate of philosophy or history? We could wish it were so, but it is scarcely ever the fact. Since the degree of bachelor is indispensable, since...
...allowance for the trivial character of a College paper, and the unavoidable demands on the time and labor of an instructor, we still think that this is a medium of communication which should be used. That the College papers are not better than they are, is as much the fault of the instructors as of the students. Nor let them think that there are no appropriate subjects on which to contribute. Advice and information on electives, text-books, and methods of study, now given only to a few, and in a desultory manner, would be gratefully received by the editors...
...present system has many advantages over all the others that have been tried, and, with this one exception, does not offer the slightest ground for complaint. This one fault, it seems to me, could be remedied by a very simple provision. It is generally acknowledged that the men are truthful, however much they may be wanting in other virtues, and, if this is really the case, the virtue might be utilized in this way: on each form used in the application for rooms, a line or two might be printed to the effect that the applicant desired...