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...President to a member of '74 his application was ruled out, and this decision established as a future regulation. This ruling does injustice to such students, and it is hoped will be reversed in the case of future awards. Expenses are not so low here that it argues a man must be over and above wealthy if he travel...
...wonderful, not long ago a Professor remarked, how much a man of my age comes to know. That Agassiz estimated his own learning but small is clear; fishing with a friend, to an inquiry he said, while confessing his ignorance, that his lifetime hardly offered a beginning for the labors his science demanded...
...have departed with the stealth of an Arab encampment. An ubiquitous individual of the spirit-world could hardly be more interestingly employed than in following the men to their different homes and amusements, and observing what becomes of them, - we had almost said what they become; for a college man, marked and catalogued according to college standards, becomes often a totally different being when thrown into the world. Some, lionized and petted by their small circle of friends and acquaintances, assume alarming proportions in their own estimation, and, by reason of their own greatness, are threatened with the tragic...
These schools correspond nearly to what are called in America common schools. Children there learn the elements of education necessary to every man, in whatever condition of life. Reading, writing, a little notion of French grammar, of arithmetic, French history, and geography, of church history and religion, - such are the elements of the instruction. Every commune must have its schools, - one for boys and one for girls, but generally entirely distinct. Mixed schools are very rare in France, while with you young men and girls to the age of fourteen or fifteen, and sometimes older, go to the same school...
Regard Hildebrand as only an able and resolute man, who took advantage of, though he did not make his opportunities, and there is enough in his character to impress you with a sense of its unusual dignity; nor can you follow the history of the wretched Emperor with unbated breath; he shows his teeth like a hunted rat, now in one corner, now in another; at last he exposes his neck at Canossa to the spring of the cat that for twenty years has patiently waited in the Vatican. But endow him with an instinct amounting to foreknowledge, with...