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...cannot be deemed sufficient. Many men who would be glad to take up elocution if individual appointments were given, are unwilling to spend two hours a week in going to recitation in this subject and listening during much of the time to the speaking and criticisms of men who know no more of the subject than they do themselves. Those who can afford to take private lessons will probably do so; but, pray, what are those who cannot afford the expense to do in preparation either for the competitive speaking or for commencement...
...languages in their daily conversation. The reason for this is easily understood. The fact that all the students are occupied in the same line of study gives them sympathetic views. Men are readier to converse on the subject of their studies when they are sure that every hearer will know precisely to what they refer, and what they mean...
...four years of residence at college were spent in the acquisition of Latin and Greek, a smattering of mathematics, enough of logic to distinguish barbara from celarent, enough of rhetoric to know climax from metonomy, and as much of metaphysics as would enable one to talk learnedly about a subject he did not understand. The students lodged in the dormitories and ate at the commons. The food then partaken of with thankfulness would now create a riot in a poor-house. At breakfast, which was served at sunrise in summer, and at day-break in winter, there was doled...
...Aspect of Philosophy." This lecture considered especially the world outside of man. Science assumes that this world is a vast whole, under the control of physical forces; an immense succession of phenomena, every one of which could have been predicted from all eternity by a mind powerful enough to know and to use some exact universal formula. Has such a world any religious aspect? The answer suggested by science is often stated thus: The world shows us universal evolution. Evolution in human nature tends towards the good, and is therefore a progress. Progress tends to realize the moral needs...
...liking for one another. The Argonaut has succeeded in working up a considerable subscription list and is financially secure for its first year, which is better than its projectors hoped. The Chronicle has for some time been making money; how it will come out this year I do not know...