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...view of the total lack of facilities for improvement afforded by the College. It is almost farcical that prizes should be given by the College for excellences which are wholly dependent on previous or outside instruction, or on natural ability. In fact, the most noticeable faults of the general speaking were such as the most elementary teaching in the art of oratory would correct...
...general style is so gorgeously "swell...
SCENE. - Freshman Recitation in "Odyssey." Mr. B. (a fellow of extensive general knowledge) translates the passage where the purchase of Eurycleia by Laertes is immortalized: "eelkooaboa d' edwkev," - "and he gave for her twenty...
...more available knowledge, so much more experience of men and books. What, then, would be the harm of employing note-books in examination? For my part I see none. To be sure there are certain studies, especially dependent upon the memory; of these I say nothing. But in the generality of literary studies, in the classics, in language, in history, would there not be a great encouragement to pursue outside work if the student could make use of it at his examinations without the tedious process of memorizing it? Would not his familiarity with the tools of learning, books...
...College Argus raises the old cry of "Too much Work," which is echoed just now by every College in the country. A youth in this paper must have been doing a vast amount of "general reading" the last winter, for in a short account of a visit to the Packer Institute he has introduced quotations from Virgil, Moore, Mother Goose, Tennyson, Milton, Shakespeare, and St. Paul...