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...reading man wants to have his library well stocked on his "hobby," but yet not entirely deficient in everything else. When we study one thing excessively we need relaxation, or sad consequences will ensue. One poor man read too much Gibbon, and he is now in a "decline...
...what is said at them, fills sheet after sheet with "notes," and at last, with a sigh of relief, throws down his book without having caught one glimmer of that light which, for those who see it, shines as brightly now as it did when the most ignorant man in Athens felt the roll of the thunder in AEschylus' words, and was the wiser and the better for it. Such an unfortunate result cannot always be prevented by the best instructor, but in most instances it can be, and in most instances with us it is not. This...
...attention of our readers to an article printed elsewhere on school-teaching. The subject is one of interest to us all, whether we intend to follow it as a profession or not. The view here taken is of no small importance, as it is the opinion of an able man, and one well acquainted with the requirements as well as the difficulties and advantages of such a duty. His experience alone is sufficient guaranty for the soundness of his advice, and we would recommend all to read it carefully...
Those who knew him personally will mourn sincerely for him as a man, and all who have watched the progress of his short career will realize what a loss American literature has suffered...
Professor Dennett graduated at Harvard in 1862, and his life from thence to the time of his death has been devoted to the improvement of the literature of the country. When, in 1869, Professor Child was called upon to select for an assistant the man whom he considered best fitted for the place, he named John Richard Dennett. He filled the position of Assistant Professor of Rhetoric here for two years, and during that time he won the respect of the Faculty and the esteem of the students. It was to the great regret of all undergraduates that he resigned...