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...dollar, and thus maintain a useful institution in our midst. An admirable collection of papers is now on file. In addition to the large dailies, are found the weeklies and the prominent college exchanges. The Pioneer Press and the Scientific American have lately been added to the list. We are confident that the merits of the case justify this appeal, and we hope it will be heeded...
...cases, undertake to "prepare a man for college," that is, they prepare him for his entrance examination, - there they see the end of their obligations toward their pupils. It is for the work he is to do in college that they ought to prepare him, not for the list of facts and rules necessary to get into college. And that is what the German gymnasia do: they encourage independent thought they try to develop the individual minds of their pupils and to instruct them in the methods of thought and research...
...subjects have been added to the list of forensic topics in the library...
Attention is called to the fact that additions have been made to the list of approved topics in the manuscript book at the library...
...know to get instruction in the works of such authors as Spencer, Bunyan, Campbell, Congreve, Cowper, Defoe, DeQuincey, Disraeli, Fielding, Fletcher, Herrick, Johnson, "Junius," Keats, Landor, Lovelace, Macaulay, Marlowe, Miss Martineau, Mill, Pepys, Percy, Richardson, Sheridan, Smollett, Stanley, Steele, Sterne, Swift, Tennyson, Thackeray, Thomson, Waller, - the list might be continued indefinitely. Every student of English literature should know something about every one of these authors. The only courses of instruction granted to us in which we can learn something about the general literature of England, (for I purposely omit all reference to American authors) are two unsatisfactory half-courses...