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...particularly impressed by the fact that there is not a school or college in the country in which may not be found the sons and daughters of the working classes. Frequently he found young working men spending a year in college in scientific studies, who intended to resume their manual employment after leaving it. Among the New England institutions which describes, the Boston Institute of Technology is prominent. He says: "This institution worthily enjoys a high reputation in America. Its graduates enter into the scientific professions, and the engineering, mining and manufacturing industries without difficulty or delay. I have experienced...
...must all do. Although it may not be necessary to have read Beattie's essay on "Classical Education" to be a cultivated man, it is true that nothing will give culture or, indeed, education so quickly as general outside reading. Whether it be supplemented by a college curriculum or manual labor it is the reading of books upon which we must found our cultivation. "Show me his books and I will tell you the man," is so true and invariably reliable that it is strange we do not take greater thought or care about what or how much we read...
...Manual of the Harvard Club of New York for 1884 has just been issued. The list of names shows a membership of 332. Among the members from recent classes are G. Andrews, '83, Perry Belmont, '72, Paul Dana, '74, L. L. Delafield, '83, Prescott Evarts, '81, L. Godkin, '81, U. S. Grant, Jr., '74, H. G. Leavitt, '83, R. S. Minturn, '84, J. A. Noyes, '83, W. H. Page, '83, E. N. Perrin, '82, Theodore Roosevett, '80, Barrett Wendell, '77 and E. J. Wendell...
...extra copies of Bacon's "Manual Gesture" have arrived...
...extra copies of Bacon's "Manual Gesture" have arrived...