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...greater man in preaching than Nelson in seamanship. Take, then, a youth of thirteen from the school. Apprentice him to the minister of the parish. Let him make at once preparations for clerical work. Let him store his memory with sermous, let him make abstracts of divinity systems, master the best exegetical commentators. Then, in a year or two, he would begin to catechise the young, to give addresses in the way of exposition, exhortation, encouragement and rebuke. Practice would bring facility. Might not, I say, seven years of the actual work, in the susceptible period of life, make...
...Robert Whitelaw, the assistant master in Rugby School, has translated the tragedies of Sophocles into English verse...
...Master Clifford Patterson is decorating a beautiful heart, cut out of hollywood. Wonder whom it is for? Of course it is not for Zena; he would not want to give her two." - [Western...
...master! art thou gone...
...compulsory recitation, with marks, has disappeared. The recitation has become a conference. The student meets his instructor, not because he is obliged to, but because he can master his subject better with his help. The instructor often does the reciting himself, expounding and illustrating his subject, and occasionally calling on some member of the class to read or explain. In this way ground is rapidly traversed and everybody's time saved...