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...Russian Government is about to establish at St. Petersburg, a Polyglot college, where perhaps eighty-five languages will be taught. A Russian professor, himself speaking over a score of languages, is about to publish Mezzofanti's method of learning a foreign tongue. "Every man of average capability can learn any foreign language within a month," says the Professor, "and whoever fails is lazy or a stupid fellow...
...college from which to form an eleven is the remnant of the old '84 team, which was no match at all for the finely trained teams of Princeton and Yale. Still, there are enough good athletes in college to form a strong eleven, and they could learn to play the game. It is to be hoped that Harvard will once more be allowed to enter the inter-collegiate foot-ball contests...
...call for something that is at present foreign to our nature is illustrative of the typical American. We are a pushing people, proud of our success and jealous of those who surpass us. The University is the effect, not the cause, of ambitions for trained scholarship. A desire to learn must come before institutions of learning can be successful. It is true there is a reaction exerted by the college upon the educational character of the people. Growth of learning and of colleges or universities must go hand in hand. America is not ready for a German or English university...
...editorial a few days ago, we expressed our gratification at learning that a captain of the 'varsity eleven for '86-'87 was to be elected. We learn now that the election has been attended with some difficulty, and that as yet no decision has been reached. The members of last year's eleven are about as evenly divided on the two candidates for the position, and are unwilling to declare elected any one who may have only one or two votes majority. This spirit is commendable, because it shows a desire to show to the college at large as much...
...essay goes on to say, that the boy who lays aside his reasoning powers, and takes without question the dictum of his teacher, is the one who learns to read and spell more readily. There is a great strain upon the powers of memorizing at the expense of everything else. Several letters stand for one sound and vice versa. There are many silent letters and syllables, and altogether the English language is the worst constructed of any now in existence, except, perhaps, that of the heathen Chinee. An Italian school-boy learns to read Italian in a little over nine...