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...hours spoke to me in Little Russian, and that very fluently. To my question how he could master a new language in so short a time, the prelate answered that he had known Russian already. That did not satisfy me, however, for one knowing Latin can easily learn Italian, but not within a fortnight. Since that time, for forty years I have zealously read everything that was written about the polyglot Cardinal. I was about giving up my task when suddenly I struck the hidden secret...
...professor is about to publish Mezzofanti's method of learning a foreign tongue. He has tried his method repeatedly, and his pupils have mastered different languages, each in from three to four weeks. 'Every man of average capability can learn any foreign language within a month,' says the Professor, 'and whoever fails is a lazy or a stupid fellow." - Newark Advertiser...
...member of the class which has recently entered college. The writer urges the college to at once take measures to have a proper infirmary provided for the use of its dangerously sick students. We had thought that one of the first tasks of the freshman was to learn the names and uses of the various college buildings. From this communication, however, it seems that some of the undergraduates are not as yet thoroughly posted. To end the matter, then, we would remark that the yellow and white edifice on the northern side of Holmes Field is the college hospital...
...life is to educate the mind. There are men who take pride in saying that they have never seen the inside of the library; from these men, freshmen, coming from the restrictions of school life and imagining that the freedom of the Harvard system means a license for laziness, learn to consider it beneath their dignity to study. They believe that the library alcoves are the haunts of men whose shoulders are stooped and whose eyes are dimmed by a continued perusal of dismal texts. One should not sate himself with too much library but a judicious use of this...
...learn that up to yesterday afternoon eighty-four freshmen had applied for pages at the library and begun to take books. This is truly a good showing for eighty-nine, and indicates that the disuse of the library which has been a shame to some other classes has got to be a thing of the past. Unfortunately for eighty-nine, however, it has not had the advantage of such a talk as was given by Mr. Kiernan last year in regard to the proper method of using the library. No doubt that gentleman can be prevailed upon to repeat...