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...different things that look like engines, but none with a donkey. Think the captain might have been more explicit. The vessel begins to go up and down a little. Do not want any tea, but go down and eat heartily. The cake was very good. After tea I gradually lose my interest in everything. Am not a bit seasick. Wish the boat would not pitch so. There is no need of it Go to bed at nine o'clock and sleep soundly all night...
...honor who will do their share of the work, and derive additional benefit from his remarks to them. Thus men who come poorly fitted, but eager to learn, appreciate and derive greatest advantage, while those who may fancy the remarks as "too critical," "too old," gradually lose what they do know, and learn nothing...
Could this abandonment of a practice which has been a serious blot upon the character of American Colleges be prolonged for two years more, we may fairly hope that in ceasing to be a "College Custom," the practice would lose its last hold upon young men who are justly proud of the good name of Harvard Students as gentlemen...
...desires to lose one of the most graceful bits of modern English writing, he will do well to omit to read "A Rose in June," now appearing in the Every Saturday, and copied from the Cornhill Magazine. In the number of June 6 appears an ably written criticism, or rather eulogy, on the father of the English novel, Henry Fielding. It contains a much-needed reproof of the hypocritical morality of the present day, which prevents one of the purest and most truthful of authors from being read...
...become educated, but to pass one's baccalaureat. The subjects not demanded on the examination are neglected, and even those required are learned in a superficial manner. Instruction becomes wholly a matter of memory, not of reflection, or judgment. The mind is stuffed, not cultivated, and thus studies lose all their attractiveness. From this cause result an early disgust with, and premature forgetfulness of, all things taught in college. Instead of rendering intellectual training attractive, it is made repulsive...