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...spirit and the temper of the age" (of this great and good age whose tendencies should be fondled only, and condemned never). Greek and Latin are dead, it is said, and should be buried; but the modern languages and the sciences are alive and full of practical interest. How much or how little truth there is in this cry it is not necessary or possible to discuss here, for I am considering, not whether Greek should be taught at all, but how it should be taught...
...connection with this subject, how would our interest in the classics be increased by some running commentary on the times, customs, and habits of the people they illustrate. As students, the greater part of us are too indifferent to study a history in connection with our reading, but would willingly listen to a course of lectures involving no further effort on our part than an occasional note. This is a want really felt, and we hope it soon will be supplied...
...Fine Arts. We do not see why there should not be this incentive and reward in Fine Arts as well as in other departments. The number of courses is limited, to be sure, and honors, would hardly represent as much work in this study, but with the growth of interest on the part of the students other courses will in time undoubtedly be added. It would not be necessary or appropriate to require fifteen hours, even if so many could be taken, for few indeed would care to devote themselves so exclusively to an ornamental branch of knowledge. The proposed...
...would especially call the attention of our readers to an article printed elsewhere on school-teaching. The subject is one of interest to us all, whether we intend to follow it as a profession or not. The view here taken is of no small importance, as it is the opinion of an able man, and one well acquainted with the requirements as well as the difficulties and advantages of such a duty. His experience alone is sufficient guaranty for the soundness of his advice, and we would recommend all to read it carefully...
...academical or preparatory department, as such, undesirable and unnecessary to its true usefulness and growth. Under the circumstances it is not singular that the friends of education in general, and the University in particular, watch with a jealous care, and take a no less unusual than healthful interest in, any innovations or reforms which are incorporated into the schools. This concern in the reputation and growth of the University is nowhere more noticeable than in the very general interest evinced in the success of the colleges of Medicine and Law. To this increased solicitude is due that ingenuous criticism which...