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...think it unreasonable that your examination in physics should consist almost entirely of problems and formulas. The college expects that you are all going to become engineers or scientists. It is moreover a splendid discipline for the mind to cram a mass of formulas, and to neglect the general principles of the subject. And it is really silly to object because so large a proportion of the class get marks under 50 per cent., and that so many men get conditioned in this subject every year. Your course otherwise is so easy and simple that it needs some heroic tonic...
Hitherto it has been the general custom in the East to regard Western colleges with undisguised ridicule and contempt. They have been looked upon as laughable imitations, or, rather, travesties of the old established institutions of the East. It is true that many of these colleges have brought about this sentiment by the foolish ostentation with which they announced themselves "universities;" but notwithstanding this, it is an error to think that these provincial colleges are useless, yes, pernicious affairs, doing more evil than good. It is said that there ought to be two or three good universities in the country...
Yale College seems to be running the government of the Sandwich Islands. Two judges of the Supreme Court, the superintendent of schools, the attorney general and some minor officers are graduates of the New Haven institution. It's to be hoped, for the sake of the islands, that these Yale men behave better than they did at college. If not, Honolulu howls...
...letter slandering Williams in a most ungenerous manner. Great indignation is felt here among faculty and students, and must everywhere be felt among the alumni and friends of the college against Mr. Chadbourne for this action. The cause for this sudden outburst of malice is unknown, but the general belief here is that he has been "most terribly left" in something, and that having tasted a generous supply of sour grapes, he is trying to sweeten the flavor by hurling slanders against us. His administration here was one of tyranny, justice at his hand being unknown, and the "pack...
...salary the first year, and agreeing to accept what is offered him after that; surely a strange proceeding in a money point of view. Various rumors were afloat at the time of his resignation. Some said that he had been asked to resign by the trustees, while the more general and well authenticated belief was, that President Garfield had offered him the position as minister to one of the courts of Europe. The death of the President overthrew this little plan, and the belief is that he accepted the presidency of the Agricultural College as a last resort, explaining...