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...professors at Harvard. Indeed, when the object of a course is mainly literary and aims less at mere mental drill, it is difficult to see what objection can be urged to their use, and why their use does not result, on the whole, in a saving of time and labor. The traditional college training, with its strict academical customs, of course is very apt to regard with horror any toleration of the use of the ubiquitous "trot," and to set down such a liberty as a moral sin. What seems the most absurd manifestation of this sort of prejudice...
...instrument of actual instruction, a mere means of scientific research, and the knowledge of astronomical science has faded from the minds of the collegian. But still this survival of an old custom has remained to us, and what the former student was required to take perhaps a year's labor to acquire-a knowledge of the elements of astronomy-the present senior is expected to acquire in one evening. To such an extent have the modern methods of education superseded those of the past...
...arrangement is less than before. That shacking is losing its attractions may be due to the fact that the element of chance is now divorced from the employment. We can hardly doubt that the fascination attaching to the chance of one day receiving a quarter in payment for his labor, although receiving the next day nothing but thanks, must be great to the youth of the street, educated in the school of dime-novel literature. Hereafter we cannot look to be favored with the presence of these youths, save when they are found among the great unnumbered outside the fence...
...Williams & Co." This book is a pleasant account of a journey through England, Ireland and Scotland, which has grown out of a series of articles published in one of the Boston papers. The introductory notice sufficiently explains the plan of the book: "Instead of simply recording personal observations, the labor was extended by the incorporation of historic and biographical facts, the authors hoping that, while their work would be valuable and interesting as a compend to those familiar with the facts, it would also be entertaining and instructive to that large class, in all communities, who are without the means...
...main proposition of Mr. George is this: Irrespective of the increase of population, improvements in the productive powers increases rent, and is thus opposed to the interest of the laborer. But if, as Mr. George asserts, in order to produce wealth both labor and land are necessary, will not an increase of wealth call for more labor as well as for more land. Mr. George neglects to think of the increased call for labor. But as a fact it is not true that an increase of wealth always calls for an increased demand for land. Increased production of wealth never...