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...easy it is to adopt an idea...
...such as Caesar, Virgil, Xenophon, and are here saddled with Aristophanes, Sophocles, and Horace. They have all they can do, with the help of their instructors, and other helps, to master the meaning of these. It will do little good for the instructor to point out the beauties in idea and expression. As to the beauty of ideas, any one who should put a decent amount of work upon Horace, and find no beauty in it, would, in my opinion, find none were it pointed out to him with ever so much care and repetition. And as to the beauty...
...readers who are interested at all in the town of Cambridge, or in the religious worship of our ancestors, we earnestly recommend the Rev. Mr. McKenzie's careful and interesting history of the Church of which he is now the pastor. The illustrations give one a good idea of the different buildings occupied by the Society, and of the parsonage of 1670, with its poplar-trees and long wells-weep...
...said to be a favorite idea with some of our educators that, in place of making recitations universally voluntary, the privilege should be limited to those who show a special interest in study; these being determined by their rank either in all studies or in some department. This scheme, while free from such objections as Dr. McCosh's, would also offer a powerful inducement to men in the early part of their course to work hard. To us, however, it appears to have several faults...
...relation of '75 to each of the college papers. This aspirant for the favors of the Record is treated rather gingerly by that paper. In the first place, the editors refuse to permit a letter from an anonymous correspondent; in the second place, they do not like the idea of having a correspondent; in the third place, they say that not even a knowledge of his name would justify them in printing his first letter; but finally soften toward him, and remark that "possibly his second may be of a more satisfactory nature. If so, it will avail nothing without...