Word: hadly
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That "the fallacy of many questions" had never done him any good.
It is not long since classical instruction here rested on a basis entirely different from the present. The works of the grand old thinkers of Greece and Rome were read, not as etymological and grammatical puzzles, but for their beauties of idea and of expression. The student was not asked...
The classic literature of antiquity was read for itself. The student could then realize the true beauties of the work in his hands; and a knowledge of construction would come of itself from familiarity with the pages of the model writers of old. One did not read Latin and Greek...
ADVERTISERS sometimes have a peculiar sense of the fitness of things. A glance at the columns of some of our exchanges prompts this remark. We find offered therein for the undergraduate's inspection almost everything, which we had supposed the undergraduate could never, under any circumstances, want, and if he...
How blandly would he sometimes come into my room, take off his rubbers and overcoat, and pleasantly inform me that he had no more recitations for that day! I knew what this meant, - a straight loaf till tea, and a steady drain on my cherished tobacco. He made fair promises...