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...That the students were aware of the opportunities which were thus offered them has been clearly shown by the large audiences which attended all the lectures by each gentieman. In most of the controversies between the advocates of free tade and protection, each speaker is very often in the habit of stating his own ideas, of which by the way he is very positive, without thinking it necessary to establish his views with solid facts, or with solid facts to refute the views of his opponents. Free traders as a rule express great contempt for their opponents, the protectionists...
...members of the faculty and other officers of the college is most commendable, inasmuch as these temporary absences from college duty results in an increase of vigor in filling the positions which the gentlemen thus favored occupy. Recognizing the efficacy of the custom, the faculty have fallen into the habit of granting similar vacations to the students,-some of six months duration, or, in a few cases, even as much as a year. At the risk of seeming to offer gratuitous advice, we would respectfully suggest that a suitable vacation be also given to the Dean and the Registrar next...
...Trinity students have lately fallen into the habit of "suping" at the local theatre...
...deserves. Than the number of its readers has decreased, we do not believe, for such a state of things could hardly be consistent with the improvement in the contents of the paper which this year has shown. For many men, it is to be feared, have fallen into the habit of dropping in on some friend who takes the Advocate, and indulging in its good things with the proverbial gusto which always accompanies stolen fruit. Seriously, it would be a disgrace that we could ill afford to suffer to have the Advocate abandoned because of a spirit of indifference...
Another prominent feature of the intellectual training which the college affords is made possible by the elective system. This feature consists in the habit of personal investigation of special subjects. It might, perhaps, be called the university, as distinguished from the college, ideal. In many departments each student is asked to investigate certain authorities, and to make a report upon the results of his voyage of discovery. In physics a student may be instructed to study certain peculiar phenomena. In American history he may be permitted to devote his attention for a time to one series of events. Subjects, rather...