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...studio by fire on Friday night last, necessarily interferes seriously with the work of photographing the class. However, as the books were saved and are legible, though more or less damaged by water, it can be ascertained within a short time just who are to sit again. In general it may be stated that all who had accepted negatives as satisfactory prior to 3 o'clock Friday afternoon, will not be obliged to make further sittings; all negatives selected up to that time were sent to New York, and so escaped destruction. Mr. Pach hopes to be able to make...
Universities, as I understand them, are not absolutely essential to the teaching of professions. Let me make an extreme supposition. A great naval commander, like Nelson, is sent on board ship at eleven or twelve; his previous knowledge or general training is what you may suppose for that age. It is in the course of actual service, and in no other way, that he acquires his professional fitness for commanding fleets. Is this right or is it wrong? Perhaps it is wrong, but it has gone on so for a long time. Well, why may not a preacher be formed...
Thus, I apprehend, the strictly professional uses of general knowledge fail to justify the grammar school and the art curriculum. Something, indeed, may still be said for the higher grades of professional excellence, and for introducing improved methods in the practice of the several crafts, for which wider outside studies lend their aid. This, however, is not enough; inventors are the exception. In fact, the ground must be widened, and include, secondly, the life beyond the profession. We are citizens of a self-governed country; members of various smaller societies; heads or members of families. We have, moreover, to carve...
...Nebraska legislature yesterday elected General Charles F. Manderson as U. S. Senator...
...muscles of those accustomed to manual labor are larger and stronger, yet the development of the heart and lungs does not correspond, and therefore the excess of energy in one direction is offset by the loss in another. Neither do the best physiques come from the city, but, in general, from the large towns, where the advantages of pure air, out-door freedom and the absence of severe manual labor are combined. In this connection he remarked that, for a college student of the present day to spend his summer vacation working on a farm during haying and harvesting...